Posted by: minifigpootles on: 13 August, 2008
On the weekend of 10/11 August, Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets hosted a couple of small festivals. The latter of these, The Underage festival is created exclusively for 14-18 year olds, and so didn’t seem like my cup of tea. Besides, I think it would violate my parole. Field Day boasted one of the best [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 24 July, 2008
They didn’t perform together, before you start wondering. They didn’t even perform particularly close to each other either temporally or geographically, but I didn’t review either of them when they happened, so I thought I’d do it now.
Firstly, The Futureheads played the Electric Ballroom all the way back on 29th May. They made me realise [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 25 May, 2008
There’s something a little bittersweet about seeing music in the Astoria at the moment, in the knowledge that you’re seeing it in its last days. Soon it’s to be demolished to make way for the Crossrail project. However, if my spirits were slightly knocked by the knowledge of this fact, this gig made up for [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 22 May, 2008
(Actually, he was supporting Jens Lekman, who I have nothing against, but I didn’t stick around to see. After seeing Bon Iver, there didn’t seem to be any point.)
Sometimes gigs come at just the right moment. The ‘right moment’ is usually the point where I’ve been listening to an album for long enough that I [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 18 May, 2008
When I bought the tickets to this gig, Vampire Weekend were of the so-hip-it-hurts camp. Since then, they’ve released an excellent debut (in a year full of excellent debuts, might I add) and despite this, the music press seem to have moved on.
Frankly though, I don’t know why. Their eponymous album is rather astonishing for [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 17 March, 2008
I know this is a film about Russian gangsters, and I know, therefore, that this films wasn’t likely be High School Musical 3 (although a Russia-based part of the series where all the cast get brutally slaughtered would be more entertaining). That said, there’s a lot of blood in the first few minutes of Eastern [...]
Posted by: minifigpootles on: 14 March, 2008
Before the music started, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist came onto the stage and Shadow gave a little speech about the beginnings of the project. Apparently, someone had asked the two of them to get back together and perform 1999’s Brainfreeze. They thought differently and thought that they would push the boundaries of 45s DJ-ing [...]
