December 2010
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Week 40: Darkness Revisited
Not technically a gig this week, but wanted to post this to ya’ll before it goes off line (only available till 28th December people!)
I’ve just watched Darkness Revisited - a music doc about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town album - the follow up to 1975’s Born to Run. The album was almost three years in the making - between 1976 and 1978 -...
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Week 39: Zeus @ Queen of Hoxton
Like the Beatles? Especially White album era? You’ll love these guys. One of ‘em even looks like John Lennon. Nuf said really.
They also do a mean cover of Genesis’, How Does it Feel.
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Week 38: Local Natives at the HMV Forum
Do you ever get when you go to a gig of a band that you really like, but there’s so much going on in your own head that it’s impossible to focus? Well sadly that happened with Local Natives, a band who I’m really fond of. I loved their album, Gorilla Manor, when it first came out around this time last year, and even though I feel like it has dated quite a lot since, I have a little soft spot for...
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Week 37: Petrichor Ensemble at Groscenor Chapel
Now this isn’t so much of a review this week - more of a record of one of my gigs I’ve been to. It was in a small chapel in west London, with mince pies and vino a-plenty and a really beautiful gig. However, I don’t really think it’s fair to review, as I know about half the people in the ensemble! Amazing as they all were (and well worth a listen), I’m clearly biased.
That said, I’d def...