A guy with a peacock feather wedged in his afro is having a dance-off with a blonde girl next to a huddle of tipsy office workers who are proceeding to steal the percussion instruments from the stage. As far as gigs go, this one is pretty surreal, and Leeds four-piece O Fracas have no intention [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Reviews’
April 16, 2008
Esser @ Astoria 2 12/04/08
“Esser is a person not a band,” proclaims his Myspace. Well, Esser is also a flurry of electronic beats and East End rhythm. Esser is your new favourite toy and he’s not ready to be put down yet. This 23-year-old, jerky-tempoed Essex boy started out on the Butlins circuit aged 11 and drummed in the [...]
April 16, 2008
Johnny Foreigner @ Koko 11/04/08
On the market as a shiny (glistening with sweat anyway) new manic-punk trio, Johnny Foreigner should be America’s latest gift to the music industry. After all, they play with the confidence that all American’s carry and they’ve got that trademark American whine. But they’re from Birmingham – the home of reggae-popsters UB40 and metal thrashers Black [...]
April 16, 2008
The Teenagers @ Bush Hall 07/04/08
Take caution when approaching three Parisian guys who write about the dreams of men in stained raincoats and were signed before they played their first show. Teenagers stem from a drunken joke in 2005, except someone forgot to draw the line and as a result they’re playing to a couple of hundred, er, teenagers under [...]
April 16, 2008
el Guincho @ Madame Jojo’s – 01/04/08
What you bare witness to at an el Guincho show is an absolute mind-fuck. Don’t go expecting to form an opinion of each track. Expect to either love it or hate it, because if there’s one thing about this Spaniard, it’s that live, his songs don’t have an end or beginning. His set is one [...]
January 23, 2008
Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox
Defaced by lashings of red paint that stem from his face in long tentacles, a model rests at the top of the stairs. “These shoes are my wives,” he remarks. “Anyone who mocks them will suffer in unusual ways.” The goings on inside Noel Fielding’s head splashed out onto paper, or china plates, or whatever [...]
October 18, 2007
Is podcasting to audio what blogging is to text?
From the opening hypnotic drawl: “And um…here’s the email I sent you…” the mind is off. Exploring the vast contours that store shelves of information about the milk you need to pick up on the way home. By the end of the video you’ll find that the entire thing has been blanked out.
If you think [...]
