BIG NEWS !
At the start of this year we will be hosting a run of shows at The Stags Head Hoxton, 55 Orsman Road, N1 5RA, where we will be playing alongside some of our favourite bands, soloists and DJs.
On Saturday Jan 31st, we will be joined by Fawn, who will be unleashing her gorgeous voice over guitar and loops, atmospheric guitar duo Blue Movies, and Mystic Mez on the decks playing reggae classics til 1am.
On Friday Feb 20th we will be graced with the electro-jazz styles of Uther Moads, and will have a special concert and talk from solo melodeon player Owen Woods, who will show us some trad and modern tunes with the instrument. Babak Ganjei of NTS radio show Hot Mess will be DJing til 1.
On Saturday March 28th we will play alongside Hunck, our favourite North London via Dorset pop band, as well as Magnus Loom, who will bring his prodigious twisted pop music to life in the Stag's back room. We will also have a DJ but I haven't booked one yet...
All this will take place in a cosy oak-panelled East End boozer where they sometimes have 2 pints for 4 quid and also sell cheap & delicious pizza.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
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Saturday, 3 January 2015
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Gig at The Stag's Head, Hoxton // 24th October 2014 // with Aretes
Aretes are a great band. We first played with them at The Nest months ago, but I've been listening to their album ever since. There are a few genuinely excellent songs on their debut, particularly the sad and haunting emigration anthem "All My Sons And Daughters", which is my favourite song. They are a great band and their album is well worth your time:
We played some new songs, including the ones we recorded in Madrid, it was the first public airing of one of them, and it seemed to go ok.
The Stags Head night looks likely to become a monthly fixture, so keep an ear to the ground.
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Gig at The Troubadour, Earl's Court // 12th September 2014 // with Oak, Tom Figgins and Hattie Briggs
We were out of our comfort zone in West London for this one. The show was a charity gig to raise money for children with cancer (the first of 12, more info here: https://www.facebook.com/thepowerofsoundbeyondcancer?fref=ts).
I did eventually sweet-talk the barmaid into giving me my brandy back.
Gig totals:
Wines (West London, when in Rome): 2 free (1 red - Zygmunt 1 white - Nath)
£5.95 pints of Rothaus - 1
Other free drinks: 6
Bottles of Courvoisier confiscated: 1
Bottles of Courvoisier later returned: 1
Apologies made to barmaids: 1
I had been working all day on a building site in St. Pauls and I was pretty exhausted but felt up for it. Even more so as everyone soundchecked and However my voice was still giving me a bit of trouble so I went out and got a bottle of Courvoisier so that I could at least soothe my throat a bit.
The Troubadour is a nice venue. They put out free popcorn on the tables and they have a beer called Rothaus which is apparently very nice and costs £5.95 per pint in a heavy German glass. The house drum kit costs £10 for bands to hire, which is perhaps a fair price for wear and tear, however if bands are paying £10 each and there are five bands playing that night, it's a bit of a tax. You have to pay for the popcorn somehow I spose.
The night was largely acoustic musicians, who talked to each other about who their managers were during soundcheck, and made sure to tell the audience that their latest single release that was on iTunes between songs. I suppose that's fair enough. The Troubadour has always seemed to me, though, like a venue where everyone is on the make.
Tom Figgins (https://twitter.com/tomfiggins) was very accomplished. He played a song on a Nord Stage 3 piano about his mother which was quite moving.
To be honest though I was looking forward to getting up there and making a lot of noise. So we got up and set up, and I had my bottle of Courvoisier there just in case, and then the barmaid saw it and confiscated it off the stage just before we were about to start. I had my guitar plugged in already so I couldn't really stop and get off stage to get it back, plus she was pissed off that I'd brought it in. I wasn't trying to take the piss, but rather I had it there as moral support for my throat. Which, as might be expected, gave out in about the third song, and it's a load of shit, and it's really pissing me off. Three weeks in a row now I've had to cut the set short because of my voice. I've got an appointment booked at the doctors, so I'm gonna sort it out. But it's so annoying.
I did eventually sweet-talk the barmaid into giving me my brandy back.
Gig totals:
Wines (West London, when in Rome): 2 free (1 red - Zygmunt 1 white - Nath)
£5.95 pints of Rothaus - 1
Other free drinks: 6
Bottles of Courvoisier confiscated: 1
Bottles of Courvoisier later returned: 1
Apologies made to barmaids: 1
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Gig at The Underbelly, Hoxton Square // 5th September 2014 // with Hoatzin, Rafiki and Justin Lavash
A quiet gig at the Underbelly, where we drank a few warm beers and my voice gave out again mid-song. We had to cut the set short in the end. It was pretty annoying. Hoatzin were a great, tight mathy three piece. I bought their EP after the show which you can hear / download here:
Gotta sort my voice out somehow I guess. Pretty annoying.
Gig totals:
Beers: 8 free warm Heinekens
Brandies: 0 :(
Albums sold: 0
Other bands EPs bought: 1
Saturday, 30 August 2014
Gig at The Stag's Head, Hoxton // 30th August 2014 // with Tom Jacobson and Uther Moads DJ
Last night we were joined at The Stag's Head in Hoxton by Tom Jacobson (https://soundcloud.com/tomjacobson) and had a DJ set of acid house and all-out DnB from Rhodri of Uther Moads.
The Stag is a great pub to have a gig at, with reasonably priced drinks, reasonably priced pizza, and generally just a nice atmosphere. It's tucked away down Orsman Road, so it feels a bit secret, but when you get the right night on there it can be incredible.
We went on around 10pm, and our set was going pretty well until about the 4th song in when I inexplicably lost my voice. I managed to croak my way through one of our new songs, before Sophie Jamieson arrived with a glass of magic throat balm, otherwise known as Courvoisier. It worked for Napoleon, and it usually works for me.
We got extremely sweaty, and Sophie J joined us onstage to sing the outro of Wanderers.
Then Rhodri of Uther Moads stepped behind the decks and played us out.
Gig totals:
Pints of ale: 3
Brandies: 1
Albums sold: 1
Nice tune from Tom:
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