…it’s safe to assume that Nancy Elizabeth sees her lineage as stretching back to Acid Troubadours the Incredible String Band or Nick Drake.
These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid
Beat Pyramid, by These New Puritans, endeavours to inhabit the same rarefied places as say Can, or a Nico LP; that is, the band wish to be answerable to no-one but themselves.
My Little Airport – Zoo is Sad, People are Cruel
Don’t let the beginning (or indeed the title) of Victor, Fly Me To Stafford put you off, it’s a wonderfully affirmative love song
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Citay – Little Kingdom
Somehow this unholy cross between late Can and Mike Oldfield works.
Orchestra Baobab – Paard van Troje, Den Haag 30/11/07
Most of the audience are quite happy losing themselves in the pretty much non-stop nature of the gig, it’s not like a rock concert with dramatic changes of mood and tempo, rather things are surreptitiously shuffled around, sometimes making it difficult to remember quite what has been played beforehand…
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Crossing Border festival 23-24/11/07
Mike Heron was asked such things as did the Incredible String Band’s magic carpet really accompany them around the gig circuit (yes, it did) and was Newcastle University still full of drunken Agric students? (Yes it is).
Incendiary speak to Steve Reid
The other idea, my original idea was to get “Africa”, the feeling of Africa in Daxaar without it becoming an African demonstration piece, really try and show people what its like to make music in Africa.
Incendiary interview Sharin Foo of The Raveonettes
I think we toured and partied too much at one stage in our career, and it really made the quality of the shows pretty awful.
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Animal Collective – Melkweg, Amsterdam 10/07
The whole thing smacked of the academic, smugly artistic and the downright confused; so much so that we went early, a course of events unimaginable to us earlier in the day.
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Incendiary Magazine speaks to Air Cav
No, we don’t sound very ‘Manchestah’ – not the historical sound and certainly not like the current crop of bands from Manchester. We simply don’t have that clichéd Gallagher swagger, that faux-aggression that bands like The Courteeners play on continually which has actually become a bit dull; mainly because it’s become about ‘attitude’ and not the music.