Stopped into Rough Trade East earlier to find a surprise in-store going on. Pretty nice stuff - kind of loungey Leonard Cohen meet Julee Cruise. Asked one of the staff about her, and turns out she’s Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter which is quite the claim to fame.
Messthetics at the Louisiana in Bristol. Great stuff. Unbelievable to see two legends (to me, anyway) in such a tiny room, plus Anthony the guitarist was right on it. And I got to shake hands with Joe and Brendan like a sad old fanboy wanker.
Before that it was Blood Red Shoes at Rough Trade East. As with last Friday it was the 242 bus that i used to yo-yo between the venues.
Great night overall. I’ll get a doner and chips box at the German Doner Kebab shop in Camden to further replicate late Friday. I’m at the same Camden pub posting this.
Part of Independent Venue Week, hence why they were playing the charming confines (I’m not joking, I love going to gigs at The Windmill - I used to live about 200 metres away and was there at least once a week) of Brixton’s finest whereas the last time I saw them they were headlining Koko. They seemed perfectly at ease to be back on the smaller stage, and obviously enjoyed being able to interact with the crowd. Played most of the album, plus a few tracks I didn’t know - don’t know if they were new songs or oldies not on the album.
They made everything look so effortlessly cool as they smashed through their roster of two minute songs. Could have done with them coming on a little earlier than 22:25 though - I’ve got a babysitter waiting at home! Lovely stuff…
His voice has to be one of my favourites ever. Would have liked Getting Even (sure they played it last time they played here) but the new songs, like Tokyo, sound very good indeed. The piano solo towards the end was a particular highlight.
The support, Boniface, were also cool. I think they could be big.
Saw Malcolm Middleton at Voodoo in Belfast.
Just him on his own with an acoustic guitar.
Really good show and he’s a good lad.
One or two absolute roasters in the crowd though
Just Mustard produce a beautiful racket from this lot from Dundalk in Ireland. The are a young band. Lots of distorded fuzzy guitars and feed back and angelic female vocals.