Gigs and Music Events

Not as amusing as having hillbilly, miss_socks and object corner Red Fang when they came into the pub and ply them with beer. It's not very often you get to hang out with the headline act before the gig.

Santigold @ Heaven on thursday, cant wait!

Ufomammut tomorrow... yes

Off to see the lemonheads tonight!

Faith No More at Hammersmith Apollo!

The joy being shortlived as it's a date I can't do. Bollocks.

Ufomammut tomorrow... yes

Was going to go then I saw it was a tenner plus booking. Bit steep!

Tonight, Bull & Gate, go check out new Brighton band Maker: lovely guys and great music! http://sevensevens.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/maker-cave-painting-remix/

Enjoy!

Was going to go then I saw it was a tenner plus booking. Bit steep!

Really £10 you think so? It'll be immense. I've not heard the new album yet

Here's the old one though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU-ZyGK5M1w

^ needs some umlauts.

Faith No More doing a second show at the better venue of Brixton Academy..yey

Awesome. Got tickets. Thanks for the heads!

The xx are doing 3 gigs in May, its a lottery to get tickets. http://thexx.info/ticketlottery/

saw the reunion gig at brixton last year. it was phenomenal.

Crippled Black Phoenix tomorrow night at the Garage

Might have a spare for the Alabama Shakes tonight at Brixton.
PM me if you want.

Richmond Fontaine at Cecil Sharp House in Camden on Monday night.
Richmond Fontaine - Post to Wire - YouTube

Gravenhurst, same venue, September
Gravenhurst - The Prize (taken from new album 'The Ghost in Daylight') - YouTube

saw the reunion gig at brixton last year. it was phenomenal.

Did you apply for tickets?

got tickets to see Wolfmother at the Indigo2.
shite venue, awesome band.
im most excited!

I went to Primavera Sound in Barcelona last weekend, which was fantastic again. I first went three years ago, and the festival and the city are pretty special to me (and my girlfriend, awww). Couldn't make it last year, only made it for one day the year before, so I was chuffed to be able to experience it in full again this year. Can't believe it finished a week ago tonight, but I think I'm still recovering a bit.

Very briefly:
The Wedding Present playing Seamonsters - fucking ace, such a great start to the festival, tickets to see them do it again in November.
Black Lips 1 - great fun

Black Lips 2 the next day - great fun again, but unfortunately seeing the guitarist whip out his knob and piss down the side of the open top bus they were playing on, while continuing to play and sing, will be an abiding memory
Baxter Dury - annoying between songs, decent during, but not as good as his dad
Archers of Loaf - hell yeah
Grimes - sound problems, but seemed crap and annoying dancing
Death Cab - good background music for a beer
Wilco - made a deal with my girlfriend that we'd go and watch Beirut after they played The Art of Almost. They played it second, after Poor Places, both of which were fucking great
Beirut - also great, worth leaving Wilco for
The xx - wow. Old songs played to perfection, new songs sound top
John Talabot - great party music to end the first proper night

Lower Dens - can't really remember, they were alright though
Afrocubism - brilliant fun, great for pretending you can salsa
The War On Drugs - the biggest disappointment of the weekend. I love them on record, but I really didn't think they cut it live. The music was great, but the guy didn't even try and sing. His voice is brilliant on record, really deep and smooth and really makes songs like I Was There and Come To The City. Lots of Dylan comparisons, but he was like Bob at his most grating and annoying. A great shame.
The Cure - only stayed for five or so songs, but I enjoyed them. The Cure is The Cure, I guess you know what you're getting, and they delivered it, but no great excitement
Dirty Three - Warren Ellis is one of the best performers I have seen live, and his drummer is incredible. Go and see them if you can!
M83 - I had drunk a lot of gin by this point and was on a bit of a downer. Everyone I was with, and everyone I was surrounded by, seemed to think it was the performance of the weekend. I was ambivalent, and found the singer and the crowd a bit annoying. My grumpy old man impression didn't go down well.
Araabmuzik - incredible talent and mesmerising to watch his fingers, but after twenty minutes or so he became like the Steve Vai of drum machines - all the wow without a great deal of substance
Benga - I don't know if 'your boy Benga' is always like this, or whether he can be good. But pressing the play button on one of your two Macbooks, and then letting the shittest, most annoying MC I've ever heard loose on the mic for an hour was like torture. Not that I stayed for an hour. I lasted 90 seconds then left. What I imagine a night out in Stratford to be like. Time for bed.

Sharon van Etten - lovely voice and great songs, shitty attitude
Jeff Mangum - Way better than my already quite high expectations. What a voice, took me right back to when In The Aeroplane...sounded its freshest and most powerful, and gave the songs from On Avery Island a massive edge that I feel they lack on record.
Atlas Sound - started with a totally straight version of Hank Williams' Your Cheatin' Heart, which he introduced as 'a traditional song from my country'. Then made one acoustic guitar and a few loops and effects and his voice into something amazingly ethereal. Interrupted one song to point out a sailing ship coming into the marina behind us. 'Look, a ship!' About the 7th time I've seen him play in his various guises, and I'm always struck by how humble and likeable he seems. Top guy, fantastic performer. But no My Sharona.
Real Estate - everyone else I knew at the festival (about 15 people) went off to see Beach House. I had my Beach House moment at Primavera two years ago, which I doubt can be bettered, so I stayed for Real Estate, who were really great. Their music suited the seaside sunset perfectly, and they ended on the closer of their latest album, All The Same, which was even better live.
Saint Etienne - the two singers were both dressed in sequinned dresses and looked like pissed divorcees having a cracking time at their teenaged kids' party. Sarah Cracknell has a wonderful voice and was really entertaining too. I sat down for the whole thing, but still really enjoyed it
Yo la tengo - saw them here three years ago and wished I knew more of their stuff. Listened to them a lot in the intervening time, and they didn't disappoint. Beguiling to watch, great and difficult to listen to, sometimes a bit infuriating, and the singer looks like Mark van Bommel, but my only real complaint is that they didn't play for long enough
Washed Out - wish I'd seen more of them, sounded really good
Jamie xx - yeah he was alright, but I'm not as young as I once was, and I was a bit stoned and tired by now.

Fuck I didn't realise how long that was, sorry.

You didn't get to see the Pop Group then? Heard that was ace.
Sharon Van Etten's shitty attitiude I'm surprised about. She can be a bit awkward but usually very funny. Love her stuff.

Saint Vitus & Acid King tomorrow
Sunn O))) tuesday
off to Hellfest Wednesday

You didn't get to see the Pop Group then? Heard that was ace.

They weren't really on my radar unfortunately. Listening to them now I realise that's an oversight.

I really wanted to see Chairlift as well, but it turns out that in order to see their special gig we would have had to have booked tickets a week or so in advance.

August 19th
Tickets on sale today.
Will be awesome to the max:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/afghan-whigs-im-her-slave-52212/1403106/

Off to see Die Antwoord at the forum tomorrow, should be good and weird!