What has caught me off guard is a previously unforeseen third band on tonight’s bill. This throws the timings out and will have implications later on in the evening.
The unexpected pleasure is Great White Shark, who hail from Berlin, but are originally from the UK. They illustrate how times and fashions change.
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It’s Friday and, for that very reason, the possibility exists—as ever—that the next two days will be a bit hazy. Here we have Art Brut’s "Lost Weekend" to send us stumbling on our way. This single off their fourth album, Brilliant Tragic!, is about as melodic as the band has ever sounded, with singer Eddie Argos actually crooning (the remnants of his spoken word delivery still coming through on the harder vowels): “It was a lost weekend/we took our clothes off and made no sense.” One can only hope!
I’m watching the entirely sensibly proportioned Keith Top of the Pops And His Minor UK Indie Celebrity Allstar Backing Band and I’m not sure whether there are sixteen or seventeen people on stage.
The conceit here is to have as many musicians as can be rounded up play the most basically straightforward garage pop. It works too, in the same way that Fucked Up work – extra numbers do not have to add complexity; they can also be used to create depth and warmth.
Teeth!!! (photo Wyldman)
This is not going to be a definitive report on the 2010 Offset Festival. For starters, over the two days I saw over fifty acts that I LIKED to varying degrees. And I couldn’t be everywhere, despite trying my best.
Things get off to a rollicking start on Saturday with The Neat on the Main Stage.
Much angular guitar and the first instance of one of the Themes of The Weekend (TotW). The front man who leaps from the stage and chases his audience across a field.
These days, it’s all about numbers. So whether reaching the nicely-rounded 500 mark in Twitter Followers is a big deal or not is a moot point. It just is, OK?
For me, added excitement came in the suave and witty form of Art Brut’s Eddie Argos, who, with a click of his mouse, became ANBAD’s 500th follower. Such delightful serendipity is one of life’s most enjoyable quirks.
Everybody Was In the French Resistance … Now! — G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I’ve Got A)
The kinder, gentler side of Eddie Argos (with Dyan Valdes)
Explode into Colours, pic by Cameron Browne
The sun is now shining, gleaming off the quilt of white snow over everything outside. I still have very little reason to go outside so onwards with the next alphabetical characters in SxSW’s list of showcasing bands….except I’ve changed my mind. This is actually insane and I have far more important things to do. So, I’m only going to recommend bands, and forget about the ones who are plain terrible.
"I think Jedward could unknowingly disassemble the record industry from the inside out like The Clash didn’t."
Top 10 Bands of 2009 by Michael M of that band WE ARE THE PHYSICS
The Elody by Bryn BacheSo, I was watching the news a few nights ago and this year it seems the Canadian news has bothered to report on the UK Christmas number one. Apparently, it’s newsworthy this time because three versions of Hallelujah are competing for the top spot: the original by Leonard Cohen, the cover by Jeff Buckley and the cover by Alexandra Burke, some woman from X-Factor. The saddest part of the story was the fact that the X-Factor version was winning.
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