The funniest thing about this Fat White Family gig is the power of suggestion they command. I mean it matters not if they decide to do the ironing on stage…
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Incendiary interview Viet Cong
“I can go and buy a banana all year round in the winter. I mean what the fuck is all that about? French royalty in the eighteenth century couldn’t get bananas as regularly as me!
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Incendiary hang out with Dan Deacon
I knew immediately that I didn’t want to be one of those artists who just show the back of their laptop to the audience. I never wanna do that.
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A Eurovision Odyssey part 5 – The Green, Green Gas of Home
He was deranged, but not even he would consider using sarin gas rather than dry ice during his performance.
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Interpol, Roundhouse, London, 7/2/15
They are one of those rare bands who undoubtedly peaked at their first record but who could never be accused of under achieving.
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Trupa Trupa – Headache
Apparently a lot of the songs were conjured up the New Synagogue in Gdansk and an abandoned marine machinery plant.
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Oliver Doerell – Cummi Flu
The feeling that Cummi Flu gives off is that of Doerell as a maniacal curator of a museum that’s stuffed to the seams with strange and arcane objets trouvĂ©s.
Grauzone Day 2, Melkweg, Amsterdam, 31/1/15
The Membranes may flirt with a cartoony image of themselves but in the words of the Sage of Sheffield John Shuttleworth, don’t be fooled.
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Grauzone, Melkweg, Amsterdam, 30/1/15, The Fall
Then MES and Elena shuffled on; buttoned up and carrying their stuff, looking like two daytrippers who were running for the Last of The Summer Wine coach trip to Holmfirth. You just felt this was going to be good.
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Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
But regardless of expectations or otherwise, it’s a great, warm pop record, chock full of good licks and hooks and the funny squidgy little beats that keep you nodding along.
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