It is SUNday. Such an appropriate name.
So once you’re done toasting yourself in the park, or if you’re desperately attempting to shelter your pasty skin from more death rays, check out some gigs on this week!
Monday
Glasgow Podcart & Detour Present: United Fruit + Alarm Bells // Stereo // £5…
Oh hello new Hector Bizerk video!
Burst Love.
No more needs to be said, just watch it. Got it? Good
It’s a penguin. With a penguin backpack.
It’s actually a penguin with a pingu backpack on….
omg
These men…
Also known as The Xcerts, have just announced this gig;
“We play Fitzherbert’s in Brighton as part of The Great Escape Festival. We make noise at 10pm. 50 capacity room……..let’s erupt!”
I feel this is the only way I can respond
Brew at the Bog was on Saturday.
I lost my voice.
I didn’t take any photos.
I got very drunk on free beer and cut about with this guy looking like a complete and utter rock star wanker. Seriously, Alexa Chung would have been proud.
However, The Pop Cop was ever the professional and the outcome was this blog post.
http://thepopcop.co.uk/2012/05/live-review-brew-at-the-bog-2012/
He brings up some very valid points, as always! Check him out on a regular basis and keep informed about everything you need to know about the Scottish music scene.
How to get The Little Kicks to sound all young, kicked back, synthy, snazzy and what not? Get Discopolis to remix them. Easy as that.
A wee snippet of the Jet Pack Boys at Coachella, performing It’s Thunder and It’s Lightening, with the crowd going mental
Friday at Coachella
Hello Seahorse on the Main Stage. Very Florence and the Machince, the Mexican pop quartet got a strong crowd considering they were one of the first bands on, in the middle of the day, in the desert. The lead singer Denise had some serious lung power- probably the reason the band have supported the likes of The Beastie Boys, Jarvis Cocker and The Killers. Definetly worth checking out if you’re into your indie-pop, and/or powerfully lunged ladies.
Honey Honey in the Mojave tent.The male/female duo that make up Honey Honey, supported by their band of merry touring men, sounded like Mumford and Sons in cowboy boots. Not really what I take in my tea, but you can hear that the L.A folkies are very good at what they do. I particularly liked that they shared the vocals throughout their set, with neither of them coming across as the lead singer- they sang together.
GIVERS again in Mojave. They were pretty good- really strong crowd reaction is all I wrote down when I was scribbling notes so that’s all I really have to go on. They did this song; that’s why we stayed. I’m sure you’ll know it-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkA1GDnUm8
If you don’t, it may or may not have been in Glee. And I promise, I only know that because it came up in google when I was looking for it. Really cheery, upbead music that makes you want to dance. Probably the exact reasons it was used in Glee…
And finally, the last of our Friday afternoon slot, before we went back for a nap-
Yuck. Their album has been sitting in my car for months, and I’ve only listened once or twice. After seeing them live, the first thing I did when I got back in the car was put their album in. It’s pretty dang good. Bringing back the grungey, “we don’t care, here’s out music” vibe, they did just that; stood and played their music. Check them out FO SHO! Get away was the one I recognised (thanks to BBC R1 playlisting it a couple of months back!) so start there and ease yourself in.
It’s really surreal travelling over 5,000miles to a music festival in the states, to see one of your favourite Scottish bands. Hearing “We’re We Were Promised Jetpacks” in a broad Edinburgh accent blaring across the sound system was just… familiar yet completly out of place. No “yeeehaaaah” no, “fuck yeah man” in a really american accent. Just plain, simple and Scottish.
I’m not going to sit and gush about how amazing the boys were (because yes, they were that good). Instead, I’m going to give you the key to finding out for yourself!
http://www.youtube.com/coachella
You can either watch live, at approx. 9.30pm in the UK, 1.30pm in the East coast of the US, or you can, very handily, watch it again at a time that suits you via the same link!
Go on, you don’t want to hear me shout about how great it was being there, how electric the crowd was, how sunburnt I got watching them, how amazing Coachella was as a whole, how I went to Coachella……. (I’ll start boring myself soon too don’t worry!)
