Mmm wide angle shot
Starting to really look up sites like Rough Trade East and Pure Groove Records, they do quite a lot of instore gigs and it’d be a shame to miss them. So tonight I went out to go see Cold War Kids play a quick acoustic set at the Rough Trade East before they jetted off to their proper sold out gig in astoria. It was a quick 4-5 song set but nonetheless a good show to catch in my books (plus it was free, mmm).
This was just a walk in gig so wristbands weren’t necessary (which was cool). I left work feeling happy that it was the weekend (happy mainly because I only had 2 hours sleep due to late night blogging from the Noah and the Whale gig and needed to relax afterwards) and immediately started strolling to the venue, it was a mere 10 minute walk which was cool (plus I need the exercise), there weren’t many people at the gig at first but slowly more people filled the place up. The staff were slowly wheeling the shelves out of the way whilst the band were tuning up their guitars ready for the gig. There wasn’t really a build up to the gig since no queueing up was involved and the band just started on the spot without much prompting.
Nathan found the original seat crumby so he changed it with a new one
They played mostly songs from their latest album Loyalty to Loyalty, I didn’t hear enough of the new album to know what the songs were but I did recognise their latest single Something is not right with meh. I really wished they sorted the soundchecking out properly because when they played this song the guitars were overpowering Nathan (the singer)’s voice, it looked like he was really shouting on the mic to get himself heard. Photo taking was pretty piss due to the fact that the front of the stage was a huge gap that we shall call “the modesty gap” where people are too shy to occupy, it kinda became a photographer’s pit as several folks swarmed around clicking on their dslr cameras (one was analogue which I thought was pretty oldskool). This venue was always a nice play to practice your photography, unfortunately the lighting can be pretty dull since it’s just some normal bog standard lights. I’ve condensed my photos of the gig from 66 pictors to a mere 4, mainly because it was such a short set and there really wasn’t much to take photos of that makes it look unique (it starts getting a bit samey you see).
Here’s something that doesn’t get boring, a nice video of them playing Something is not right with me.
The unfortunate thing about the recording was that the mixing was horrific, the guitars were far too loud and it overpowered the vocals, which was a crying shame 
So yeah, that was about it, after the fourth song they were actually set to leave but a guy from the front persuaded the band to play one more song before they left which they did, it was funny how we were able to ninja in a bonus song, it’s always nice to have bands listen to what the audience wants (like when Tilly and the Wall asked for song requests to play at the encore). So yeah, enjoy the 4 pictors I took :p
Don't know why but i like this pose
Johnnie
Up next, that trip with uka, some more geeky gigs, random photo galleries and lots more! This weekend might be a blogging mad weekend so hope you can keep it 
Stay tuned dear readers
