Both bands contributed to a great night, and a lot of new people turned up and realised that there is another world outside the 3fm bubble that is actually a creative drip-feed for it.
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Ein Abend Mit Kapitein Rummelsnuff, WORM, Rotterdam 8/7/15
The gig was also sort of dressing up game indulged in by two grown men whilst singing about your pals, eating, sailors, and bodybuilding.
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The Ex, Fendika, WORM, Rotterdam 10/7/15
WORM had filled up nicely with a mix of Ethiopians, trendies, part time punks and Roffa dossers, existentialists, and the odd emissary from the world music chin-stroker club.
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Plein Open Goes Bazart Goes Paard van Troje 25/7/15
One day, I promise, I will get bored about writing about Rats on Rafts. But not yet. Rats are unstoppable at the moment.
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A Memory of Some Free Festivals – Houtfest and Park Pop 2015
Some of my Dutch pals look at me like I’ve just announced that I’ve converted to satanism when I say I love Frans Bauer.
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King Ayisoba, Blue Crime, Spoelstra – AA NIght, Gebr de Nobel Leiden 26/6/15
Somehow things ended and a room full of people with a second wind ran around wondering what on earth to do next. Some night!
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John Doran – Jolly Lad
For me, and without in any way wishing to sidestep these narrative cornerstones, the charm of Jolly Lad (and for all the heavy stuff, it is a book filled with charm and that particular South Lancs/Scouse whimsy) is in its telling. It’s tricksy.
Todd Tobias – Tristes Tropiques
Tobias’s LP is a magnificent follow up to his Impossible Cities 1 & 2, somehow going much further than those to records, and having more of a spacey, Eno-esque feel to it.
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One More Grain – Grain Fever
Such is the record’s jigginess, I feel the need to oil the wheels, to cross the Rubicon and start ordering you to spend your Ambitious Working People’s Allowance on this…
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Flies on You – etcetera
An army of lost souls to rival Aragorn’s Wight Army in Lord of the Rings; bands whose members still flit through the sodden crevices and dingy folds of the Pennines.
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