Richard Ashcroft, came on stage and sung boring songs for about half an hour. Everything he sung sounded the same and he kept repeating his own words, like an echo.
Brakes – Paradiso, Amsterdam – 2/07/05
There is an inherent giddyness in their songs which bursts through on-stage, surprising quite a few of the audience who doubtless expect every new band to sound like Joy Division.
Brendan Benson – Live Rotown 9/06/05
"I am always amazed that this powerful voice comes out of such a skinny-looking chain-smoker. "
Dig!
There are moments where you are drawn to compare Dig with that other great rockumentary, This is Spinal Tap. Except that this is no spoof.
Werfpop festival, Leidsehout – 10/07/05
Mr Bits, dressed modestly in white, played his casio with a series of jerky, saucy manouevres, allowing me to fantasize about George Formby playing Blackpool Pier in the ‘thirties.
Gigs in August
Incendiary Interview Stars
Weasels and Penny Farthings. The stuff all good conversations are made of.
Metropolis Festival – Zuiderpark, Rotterdam – 3/07/2005
Booze, bands and a frisbee. What more do you need?
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Damian’s Metropolis Review
Eventually somebody important did appear, you could tell they were important as they wore a body warmer (in 30 degree heat!) and had a walkie talkie strapped to their waist.
ZZZZ – Palm Reader
such an exhaustive listen.
Assasination Polka is a brilliant, brilliant opening to what turns out to be a very surprising album. Shuddering and thumping drums dominate, but the track is given it’s charm by a beautiful sax refrain and a twinkling children’s piano run. The lyrics seem concerned with assasination, or suicide, or screaming.