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Our favourite Gypsy immigrant punk rock band Gogol Bordello return to London to grace us with some more energy charged madness and fun. They were supoorted by Supramazoo, a Belgium band who really complemented the event well with crazy beat boxing and hardcore rocking (not that they were a hardcore rock band, but whatever). This night has been quite a bouncy one and left me covered in projectile sweat, red wine, and more sweat from jumpy fans.
From the lovely Dueling Analogs. Finished watching the finale of Heroes Season 3…. not impressed. I’ll leave it at that before someone goes “SPOILER ALERT”. Hmm, i might make a spoiler tag for the blog haha, but I doubt I’d be talking about Heroes all the time.
Boy oh boy it’s been a while since I’ve been to a gig, granted I haven’t been sitting all day, just going out and meeting lots of people lately that it’s been hard to settle down and catch up with you folks. Tonight I got biblically lost in Westminister trying to find St John’s Cathedral, I was going to see Lisa Hannigan, an irish singer who used to provide lead female vocals for singer songwriter Damien Rice (who’s also irish). Since March 2007 she has ceased working with Damien Rice and focuses on her solo career. She recently released her album Sea Sew and was able to come back to England after a US tour and perform a one off gig in an awesome church.
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Oh catch up November, le sigh. This event happened a few weeks ago (24th November) where I went to see Jeffrey Lewis play at Brixton Windmill. It was a small and intimate venue meaning I could finally bring my camera bag out instead of my smuggle bag for a change. The gig was awesome and cosy despite feeling stuffy and packed in this small ickle venue.
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Tonight I saw Wolf Parade live at the Electric Ballroom in camden. Originally they were playing at Kings College but that got moved to Camden, both are pretty fine venues I hear so it didn’t matter to me much. The gig was jumpy, moshy, exuberant and crazy. I’ll promise I’ll keep this short! I keep saying I will but it always ends up in drivel!
So this isn’t the first time I’ve seen Shearwater play live. I saw them in September when they were playing at Bush Hall and thoroughly enjoyed it, it was so good that when they announced that they were playing in St Giles in the Fields, I immediatly booked tickets to see them once again. I knew that venues play a key ingredient to the sound the band makes so seeing them play in a biblical church just bumps their awesomeness
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Guillemots live at Barbican: Dear Mr/Ms C42
27 Nov
Dear Mr / Ms Seat C42,
You probably don’t know me but I know a little bit about you, you had purchased a lovely ticket to see Guillemots play at the lovely Barbican Hall on Wednesday 26th November, you had booked seat number C42, it was the second row of the hall and had an amazing view of the band, the problem was that you weren’t able to attend the gig, which is a pity because the gig was amazing. Hopefully this letter will fill you in a bit more about the gig which I happened to attend coincidently.
Man oh man what an amazing evening. Originally I was going to get some rest after two gigs in a row but I’m simply too pumped and buzz to goto sleep so I decided to go fix my internet (involved using the spare router and doing some ninja work), upload my photos and blog about this amazing event before I goto bed. I’m From Barcelona are a swedish pop / rock band containing 30 band members (just picture the number mass of polyphonic spree but without the white robes and the mind games). Their lyrics are about waking up late for work/school to randomly building secret tree houses. I was recommended this gig and after tonight I am confident to recommend the gig to anyone and promise they’ll have all the fun in the world.
