Category Archives: Gigs & Reviews

A FANTASTIC night at the Brudenell with one of the tightest most rockinest bands I’ve seen in a long long time – ‘Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds’ blew me away. Imagine The Fall brought up on LSD instead of Joseph Holts – Just brilliant, the real deal! Great support from underwear obsessed local heroes ‘Rent Boys’ and the wandering off stage and capturing the odd punter ‘Russell and the Wolves’. “I’m gonna buy me a graveyard and put in it everyone who ever did me harm” Continue reading →

Noah and the Whale have been spending a lot of time playing in my car recently, with their last album on a continuous loop of melancholic minor sevenths. As the rest of Quims know I like nothing better than a dose of misery which uplifts me no end. The new album sees Charlie Fink emerge from his Post Break Up blues and as has been widely documented brace Americana and with his Springsteen edged synthpop his band have conquered Radio 2 with their upbeat pop song L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. Its not unfeasible as Bob suggested to see them achieving success in the States in a Coals to Newcastle export arrangement. Continue reading →

I hadn’t knowingly heard anything by them, but the new Deerhunter LP had come No.1 in the Jumbo records chart for 2010 and as loads of people I know rave about them, I thought I’d better go and check them out. Continue reading →

I bought two tickets for this show because his LP got album of the year 2010 in MOJO magazine. My neighbour John came along……only to find a note on the door of the church to say the gig was cancelled … Continue reading →

Mark and I got to the gig a bit late (missing the support sorry!) and were quite surprised at how full the Met was for Iron & Wine. When head honcho, the big bearded Samuel Beam lead his troops on, he too seemed a bit taken aback “There’s a lot of you in here!” This incarnation of Iron & Wine saw 8 wonderfully talented musicians on stage how many drummers do you know that can double as an extra saxophone player? Continue reading →