Eleven Bands In One Week
A couple of weeks ago, we decided to get into the mood for Glasters by seeing 11 bands in one week. Here’s a quick summary.

On Sunday we went to see Nine Black Alps who rocked the Barfly – I don’t think I’ve seen such a ferocious moshpit at the ‘fly. If you haven’t got your hands on their debut album then I recommend you search a copy out.

Support was from a band called Former Bullies, who hail from Manchester but sing with Jack White style American accents. Best avoided.

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On Tuesday we were back at The Barfly to see Special Needs. Our friends have been telling us about this band for ages, but we’ve managed to miss their gigs at Nambucca on Holloway Rd. We seem to be the only people in North London who have missed them as everyone at this gig knows all of the words and seem to be on first name terms with the band. The tunes are incredibly catchy and we’ll be making a B-Line to see them at Glasters.

Support was from Crash Convention, who seem like nice fellas but don’t really add much to the Libertines formula; and American Minor who are like the band Stillwater from Almost Famous. For them the pinnacle of rock creativity occurred shortly after Led Zep replease Led Zep III.

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If it’s Wednesday then we must be at the Islington Academy for The Dead 60s. I’ve mentioned this band before but it’s worth reiterating – a band of youngsters who prefer the sounds of Dub, The Clash and The Specials to other rock sounds. They have a few psychedelic numbers to fit in with label mates The Coral, but really the dub-rock sounds is why we’ve come to see them and they don’t disappoint. A northern equivalent to Hard-Fi.

Support was from The Kooks, another Deltasonic band with a line in psychedelic garage rock. Not bad but I can’t see us going out of our way to see them.

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Thursday’s gig is a short notice affair, we find out that Pure Reason Revolution are playing a gig to welcome new guitarist Jamie and it’s too much for us to resist. The Borderline isn’t the kind of place you expect “the new Floyd” to be playing but it’s our understanding that EMI (their label) have an understanding that allows them to hire the place at short notice. PRR actually play a pretty good gig with the new line up – now all we need is a few more records.

Unfortunately, the lager was flowing a little too freely and I’ve forgotten the names of the first 2 support bands. I do remember We Are Scientists because they are from NY and in our opinion th next band in the transatlantic garage rock arms race. We give them Bloc Party, they come back with this.

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- posted by Nigella @ 9:18 PM