Muso-bable
The thoughts and ocassional ramblings of a 30-something muso.
Hello, I’m a muso. I'm one of those guys you see digging around the racks of vinyl in London's backstreet record shops. I'm not addicted, I can give it up whenever I want. I just need to find that limited edition 7" single that the NME made single of the week. Maybe you've bumped into me in the queue for the bar at The Academy or The Astoria. There are thousands of us in London - I've seen all the regular faces in the record shops and at the gigs.

This blog is my attempt to write about the records that I love, the gigs I've been to and, well, anything else to do with music. Hopefully you'll find something here that makes you nod in agreement or rant in disagreement or maybe even laugh.
Monday, March 20, 2006
 
News Round Up - gigs
So.. what's been going on. Well as usual, we've been out to a few gigs over the last month.

NME Awards
The NME awards tour thingy with We Are Scientists, Arctic Monkeys and Maximo Park was manic... but everyone seemed to leave after t' Monkeys, which was stupid on their part, but good for us because MP are a great band and so we got room to groove.
I'm still not sold on Mystery Jets, but I' told they will grow on me.

Belle And Sebastian
B+S don't play live very often... and as I think I've mentioned before they used to be very dodgy live, but now they are always a semi religious experience. And with a full brass section (bringing the stage count to over 10 at times), almost all of Are You Being Sinister and only 1 track from the appalling Dear Catastrophe Waitress, you have a classic night. In fact they are possibly one of the best British bands at the moment. I didn't really like support band Brakes.

Editors
Editors were f'cking brilliant. Need I say more. No, good. Support was from a band called Brakes, who actually, I'm now warming to. OK so the singer is a bit like a weak Michael Stipe and their songs just start to get going before they stop abruptly. But I can kind of see what they're doing now. As a postscript we got a call after the show from Jim, a friend of ours. We were on the bus home and he was at the after show... with 2 spare tickets. Turns out he know Russell from the band.... Bugger.

The Wrens
A coupe of months ago The Wrens were being talked about as this years Arcade Fire. The truth of the mater is the album is a bit average, and in fact they're a bunch of fat Americans from New Jersey. There are a few good moments, but really most of the set is dull. The support bands were The Favours and The Immediate. Of the two, The Favours are the band I remember; they're a 3 piece with Nirvana influences and a pretty cool female singer/guitarist. My memory of The Immediate, was that they wanted to be Radiohead really badly and do it really badly. They also swapped instruments after every song resulting in a toe curling incident with the drummer trying to play the bass and quite clearly not being able to keep up with the song.

The Automatic
It's not often you see a moshpit at the barfly, but The Automatic have a hardcore of fans already and the mosh pit is fierce. Unfortunately, shortly into the first song I take a full pint in the mush, which put's a bit of a dampener on the evening. But lager shampoo put to one side, they're pretty good, and future single Raul is good. They claim to be influenced by Blur but I can't see it. The sound is a kind of Indie Electro Glam. Check 'em out. Support band The Marshalls are an average Irish three piece.

Band news

Lisa Brown
I've been getting into Lisa Brown, who we saw supporting Liam Frost a couple of weeks ago only to find that they're gone and changed their name to something even worse: "Snowfight In A City Centre", sort it out boy.

Make Good Your Escape
They sound like unforgettable Fire era U2. I can't wait to see them live.

The Shout Out Louds
Imagine a band that sound like Supergrass or The Kooks, but have a singer like Conner Oberst from Bright Eyes - this is what Please, Please, Please the SOLs current single sounds like.

The Kooks
I've been listening to their album quite a bit, but I've been put off by the video for naive, which makes them look like Toploader. For some reason I can't get the picture of Jamie Oliver groving along to them on his moped out of my head. He's not in the video you know, but it just feels like he should be.

Dirty Pretty Things
I've been having a re trying to get tickets. We missed out on tickets to see DPT at Kings College; and The Arctic Monkeys May tour and The Raconteurs. But I was cruising around See Tickets the other week and managed to get tickets for the DPT at the Forum in May. Lucky - because the tracks I've heard so far are great - back to Libertines standards.

The used to be friends news
Jack White (or as Liam Gallagher would have it - Zoro on pies) has fallen out with his old friend Billy Childish. Billy slagged Jack off to a US magazine, Jack spat back, Billy came back with another put down and Jack threw his toys out of the pram - NME.com have all the gory details. There's also a poster available to comemorate the whole thing.

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