Posted in Live Music Review, Music, indie, twee shit, other jingly jangly guitar music, tagged Adam Green, April, Glasgow, Oran Mor, Tamar Newton on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a review from my companion at the gig
“I’ve been obsessed with Adam Green since purchasing the Moldy Peaches debut album and doing what seems to be that rarest of things, since I’ve grown out of my teens, falling head over heels in love with it.
As an ex riot grrl (apart from [...]
Posted in Live Music Review, indie, twee shit, other jingly jangly guitar music on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First time for ages at the excellent LAWM with a multi faceted 5 act line up. We arrived to late to see the uniquely talented Kriss Foster but were happily not too late for the buccaneering spirit of One Chip Potato.
(click to visit OCP homepage)
OCP as all the cool cats in the alley call [...]
Posted in Lancashire, Lancaster, Literature and Arts, Live Music Review, Photography, indie, twee shit, other jingly jangly guitar music, tagged , Lancaster, Los Campesinos, Music, photo, review, Sky Larkin, You Say Party We Say Die on October 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Three bands that got it loud at ‘Get it Loud in Libraries‘ – Lancaster Library’s fabulous and deservedly prize winning semi occasionally regularly excellent series of music nights. A big and alarmingly youthful crowd gathered squished in amongst the shelves in the music section and were treated first to Leed’s Sky Larkin, a three piece [...]
Posted in Live Music Review, Music, Places on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Situated in the beautiful Galloway Hills, the Wickerman festival is a lovely small to mdium scale festival with a laid back atmosphere. This years festival had a pretty good line up to compliment the the natural surroundings and Scottish bonhomie.
Sounds ranged from the laid back celtic tones of folk quartet Galloway (formed especially for [...]
Posted in Live Music Review, Music on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
dub fx1.JPG, originally uploaded by tangerinedream.
I urge you to check out this fella who I saw at the lovely Beatherder festival earlier this summer. DubFX is his nime and his live show is an inspired hip hop/dubstep type extravaganza of footpedals, dubplates and lyricism. I’m not convinced the samples on his page really capture how [...]
Posted in Live Music Review, Music on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was lucky enough to see this lot live a few months ago and how special they were is hard to convey. A rich blend of sea shanties, klezma and improvised hypnotic drones. Ice thin violin and strong steel bar thick bass, 7 Hertz Band walked the path between inspired and indulgant with the skill [...]
Posted in Live Music Review, Music, Places on August 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So – Dpercussion is no more and the final event was last Sat, as ever, in Castlefield, set amidst the railway arches and urban sprawl of god’s fair city.
Like every year, the organisers had created a fascinating line-up, hundreds of acts across 7 or 8 stages and venturing into dpercussion is an exhilerating and [...]
