Apartment, club Laissez-faire at The Luminaire, Friday 18th May
So the name is lame but the music isn’t. Having missed Interpol’s gig at Koko this week, I had to settle for engrossing exchanges with Carlos D in a Soho club, by way of the after aftershow party. But by way of further recompense, this band kind [...]
Apartment
Prego news
the indie review’s favourite post-rockers Prego tell us they’ve been busy in the studio producing their debut single ‘Cause and Resolve’, due out late summer. Also confirmed is that the band is playing the O2 Wireless festival next month. Prego play Leeds on Saturday 16th and London’s Hyde Park on Sun 17th.
Brett Anderson, Shepherd’s Bush
Brett Anderson, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Wed 9th May 2007
Quipping recently in an interview with popular music rag The Stool Pigeon, “Everyone thinks I’m a manic depressive anyway”, tonight he of diesel-drenched lyrics is certainly at the happier end of those two poles. This is the final date in a European tour promoting the solo record [...]
Friendly Fires
Melodicas, maracas and mini hoovers are at the ready, as Friendly Fires invite revellers in the Barfly for a shimmy along to their indie-disco. Projecting the bass through the bowels of all in the room, their vibrant opener ‘On Board’ is a full-on demand to embrace the funky eccentricities of the night. Last year’s infectious [...]
“A drunken goat could produce a Duran Duran video”
Click to read what the Daily Mirror thought of The Smiths in 1984.
The People’s Revolutionary Choir & Fanfarlo
Before the North London psychedelic rock sextet’s strummed a chord I’m eyeing up those T-shirts: good name, dontcha think? Go on, say it. Sounds like the greatest 1960s band that never was. The music’s first-rate too. In fact we’ve been wanting to catch the PRC live for some time now, after hearing that Jim Reid of [...]
Das Pop
Kill ‘Em All, Let God Sort It Out presents: Das Pop & Friendly Fires, Camden Barfly
The guitarist is Jesus fed on a Western diet but the front man is the pop of this quartet. A flash of Post-It note yellow, from the hair to the Tee, but yellow only aesthetically; he’s not shying from the cool populace. Like a conductor, the [...]
