BIMM Early Term Gig Review, 19/1/2011
Ben Scott headed down to Komedia to see whether the BIMM class of 2011 are up to scratch.
BIMM’s conveyor belt of talent is in full swing again as shown by the sold out performance at Komedia last night. The wide variety of bands proved the old adage, that ‘you can never have too much of a good thing,’ to be true. The [....]
Of Montreal - crazy pop band from the US played at Audio Brighton on Friday August 3rd 2007. Here's a review of the concert from Graham our occasional writer.
Field day is a new festival set in Victoria Park, London. The idea is to combine the aspects of a village fete with great music. Instead the organisers managed to combine horrific queing with barely audible music.
A childlike wonder of a band, who recently supported Lana Mcdee and are about to go on tour.
They even give away free candy.
Check them out!
Lana Mcdee and the O's are a local band who recently played The Cella. Its classic singer songwriter stuff enhanced by extra instrumentals. How did they cope when Lana's guitar refused to tune?
Amazing local act The Diamond Family Archive played local pub The Greys a couple of weeks ago. They have to be seen, luckily I've got a set of videos here for you, and a glowing review, albeit of a different time I saw them. That plus a new band for the best thing about Hope of the States, the violinist.
I'm from Barcelona are supposed to be one of the most fun live bands since The Flaming Lips. I had to check them out at their Brighton show and see what all the fuss was about...I was not disappointed!
This was really something, a full length gig by the notoriously difficult Daniel Johnston at London's Union Chapel. He had some very special guests helping him out, and it was one of the gigs of a lifetime. If you do nothing else, take a look at True love will find you in the end, the video at the end of the review.
Rufus Wainwright at The Brighton Dome...supporting himself! Overblown self indulgent nonsense? Or a brilliant evening of quality music.
Adem brought his Homefires festival to Brighton this year to allow us to sample the delights of Nina Nastasia, Richard Swift and The Elysian Quartet. A wonderful night at St Georges Church.