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Gig Reviews: The Futureheads and Justice

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 [...]

Review: Public Enemy @ Brixton Academy

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 [...]

MGMT @ The Astoria

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 [...]

Review: Pendulum @ Brixton Academy

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 [...]

Review: Portishead @ Brixton Academy

Posted by: minifigpootles on: 18 April, 2008

Back in what I guess would have been 1995, I watched, on TV, a live performance of the band at Glastonbury, and ever since then I’ve always wanted to see them in person. Fate, however, was not on my side. First geography was my enemy as they rarely performed outside of the capital or Bristol [...]


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