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: 2 June, 2008
There are bands that, frankly, I just never expected to see live, and Public Enemy are pretty much mythical in my mind. Seeing Chuck D and Flavor Flav come onstage at Brixton Academy wasn’t just magical in the sense that it was an amazing thing to see, it felt magical insofar as it was totally [...]
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: 20 May, 2008
I like drum and bass. Rather a lot in fact. I’m not too keen, however, on going to places where DJs are playing lots of it and sweaty people are prancing around. Which is why I can’t tell you about any of the people who were on before or after Pendulum, because I didn’t see [...]