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Andrew Bird at Shepherds Bush Empire

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

The entire morning before the show I was whistling to tunes from Noble Beast, Andrew Bird can produce some contagious whistling melodies that you can’t stop replicating. I won tickets to see Andrew Bird since the tickets were quite pricey (got to love free tickets). The show was quite remarkable mainly because he came fully equipped with the full band

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Bishop Allen at Bardens Boudoir

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Bishop Allen playing a nice cosy gig at Bardens Boudoir, the stage was nice and low and the band were in a grabable distance (not that you would mind).

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Au Revoir Simone at Bush Hall

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Keyboard smashing, disco making Au Revoir Simone played an awesome sold out show at the Bush Hall. Quite a tantalising set from the 3 beautiful and friendly ladies who just got back from touring Sweden.
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Josh Weller and Brooke Parrott

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This was quite a mini gig venture since my idea for the evening was to head down to Nando’s for some chicken, but having some free live music before that adds the cherry on top. Me and Anika went to Pure Groove to check out Josh Weller who was doing an instore there, I met up with some Patrick Wolf fans who were at the Selfridges gig, that was ace.

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Lisa Hannigan – I don’t know [HD]

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Here’s Lisa Hannigan live at Union Chapel

St Vincent – THE blue and red outfit

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

After a fun browse at my flickr accounts, I’ve notice a recurring pattern in one my favourite artists, St Vincent, whenever she tours around the place…

She’s wearing the same top blue and red top! Rather than thinking she doesn’t believe in the launderette I’m simply under the impression that she just about 8 of the same outfit for when she gigs. Anyway, here’s a slew of photos, all taken from different photographers (who are amazing btw), you can include my one too from ICA (look up) too:

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Emmy the Great – Canopies & Drapes

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Another video uploaded… yes, it was a long evening….

Funny how it was known as Canopies and Grapes for a looong time. Whilst looking at this I also noticed that Emmy did a Faye Wong cover! Awesome beans!

Emmy the Great at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Emmy the Great live at Queen Elizabeth Hall, this was a nice end to my lovely week of gigs. Emmy was super friendly (accepting random crowd banter and my ever so slightly lame question about latitude festival) and played a super long set (probably had more time due to other support band not turning up due to an illness). Emmy played a slew of album tracks, a cover of “End of the World” and a fest of oldie tracks including Canopies and Drapes, Edward is Dedward and The Hypnotist’s son (though that’s not THAT old). My favourite was probably First Love and WAHA Baby, though Dylan was toe tappingly ace too.

Was definitely the best emmy gig so far, the addition of backing vocals and piano made the music more full and Emmy wasn’t particularly swamped with shows to play in a row like her UK tour. Check this video of them playing “We almost had a baby”

I’ve got a horde of videos to upload so check check my youtube or vimeo account for more emmy goodness. Emmy releases a new EP with some of her oldie songs so buy them at the lovely guys at rough trade. She managed to play 3 of the 4 songs on the EP (I have two videos of the three )

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