Aug 13 2007 Secret Garden Party 2007
Britain’s friendliest festival expands its dream world
Wow. What a night. I don’t quite know where to begin… so I’m going to go for the start.
We arrived at The Octagon a bit after 8pm, about half way through support band Brakes’ set. They’re pretty darn cool. Lots of short and sharp punky song but also so nice melodic numbers.
They finished, and we […]
Mojo 64 are really not worth talking about, so I’ll keep this brief. Their music was horribly clichéd, sort of like a mix between Ocean Colour Scene and Reef but worse. Far better were Sanctuary For The Deacon’s Sons, whose leftfield post-hardcore was quite interesting, although it did go a bit wrong for the middle […]
Aug 4 2003 The Bays - Live, The Big Chill, August 2003
This was my first Big Chill and it was beginning to look like my last as it was confirming all my worst preconceptions. A lot of artists just seemed to be getting away with a mix of dated cool jazz or DJ sets of their bland record collections. Aside from brilliant live sets by Murcof […]
9:00 pm, there they are. Wandering on stage to take their positions. They’ll start sometime… Bloody hell! How many of them are there?
Singers/guitarists, bassist, drummer… yeah… string section, keyboardist… okay… more strings, trumpeter…and other assorted people. Ready yet? Right, we’re off.
It looks like amateur-indie open-mike night, or something. Except this is Brixton Academy, and we’ve […]
To describe Reading University Student Union as a hole is now unfair as it has had a massive overhaul since I was last there at a gig. No more sweaty cold sports halls packed with Reading’s indie lovers listening to the piss poor sound system. They have a proper stage! More than 4 lights! A […]
