In my politest New Yorkian, I said, “hey, if you want to talk, go to the FUCKING back, but I’m here for the concert.
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Veda Hille – Return of the Kildeer
In addition, the instruments that are played on this work seem to have been assembled from various garden sheds.
Fiery Furnaces – Rehearsing My Choir
It is an album of almost unimaginable folly, of incredible indulgence?
Bring Your own Poison – The Rhythm Factory Sessions (Various)
Bring your own poison? Make mine a pint of bleach.
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Incendiary Talk to A Hawk and a Hacksaw
There’s no grass for cows to eat and there are big skies
Incendiary Talk to Sons and Daughters
Oh… I love Chai-Ovna
In Music We Trust (featuring the Rakes)
a man who resembled Jason King wandered onstage, clutching an acoustic guitar and accompanied by a girl who resembled the star of Der Neue Schulmadchen Report 2 Teil: Was Eltern den Schlaf Raubt
An Introduction to Patrick Wolf
Lycanthropy is a work of massive scope; it is the result of five years of song writing and is intended to showcase what an incredibly talented child can do.
Music in My Head – Paard van Troje, Den Haag 11 & 12/11/05
Singer Alec Onsworth had an awkward look on his face the whole show, but somehow it really worked, maybe he can only sing in his charmingly awkward way whilst making nervous looking faces.
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Echo & the Bunnymen – Paradiso 8/11/05
You realise when hearing stuff like The Back of Love that the Bunnymen still retain their air of hypnotic, ethereal, abstract strangeness. It’s like musical non-music if you see what I mean.