Girls
Kentish Town Forum, London
Monday, May 28 2012
San Franciscan band Girls sound fresh, because they are something of a contradiction - original yes, but religiously-undertoned and yet casually flippant.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti with John Wiese
Koko, London
Friday May 13, 2011
'60s psych-pop vibes flow through laid-back onlookers while a hardcore of fans dance and sing along to every last word.
Smith Westerns
The Luminaire, Kilburn
Saturday, November 20th 2010
While perhaps not yet the latest savious of pop that many musos are describing them as, in terms of raw potential there are plenty of sparks.
As the band power their way through early hits Firestarter and Breathe, scenes of delirious mayhem ensue.
Feeling a tiny bit better today, although on the whole I'm more bunged up than the pair of reprobates in Elbow's tale of horse race-fixing n'er-do-wells The Fix.
Chris is hoping for the inclusion of Race For The Prize in the encore, but is left disappointed. “Perhaps they’ll play it in 2012,” he says optimistically.
I read on Everything Everything's Twitter page that Rolf Harris sang Tie My Kangaroo Down, Sport on the ferry over this morning. This knowledge cements his legendary status.
Well and truly, Mr Rascal here has proved himself a worthy headliner of the modern era.
