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: 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: 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 [...]
