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Their list of influences is crazy, it used to be on their Myspace page and everything. Seb Rochford's favourite bands are famously Prince, Venetian Snares, Pig Destroyer and Bjork, how good would a festival put together by these lot be?

I got tired of them 2 years ago where they seemed to play like every fucking bar and festival in London.

Oversaturation. and then they became really popular wiht SOAS students and I couldn't take anymore

a few days ago because you guys are always creaming over them, and I love me some jazz. Thanks for the recs. I am feeling it, I will have to dip back into their catalog and get em all.

and that birthday things is pretty spooky.

Camouflage is pretty good but very diffrent its all acctualy acoustic and just mad prolonged jams of hendrix stuff re-inturpreted and improvised untill they don't sound much like Hendrix but has a simular spirit I guess.

They have the emotional fury of avant garde jazz and the visceral energy of punk with none of the cliches of either.

that really is weird. Maybe the band members themselves have superpowers, that would explain both this and their amazing awesomeness :)

Last night's gig was probably the best I've ever seen. They looked so cool and badass

I actually prefer polar bear and fulborne teversham, i haven't seen acoustic ladtland live tho so that might have something to do with it.
fulborne teversham are of my favourite bands at the moment.
i think seb roachford is some kind of genius and he is sooooooooo good on the drums

Skinny Grin is my favourite (just) - it was the first thing of theirs I heard. I was working in Fopp when it came out and the cover appealed to me from the shelves, and I recognised the name so I put it on the shop stereo.

Twas quite amusing to watch the entire customer population of the DVD section jump about two foot in the air when Road Of Bones kicked in with that massive, dissonant crush after the delicate piano intro. I love how sleazy some of the sax work on that album sounds as well - it's that, more than anything else, that keep the more spaced out stuff on Skinny Grin as full of punk energy as the heavier stuff.

Polar Bear live is a sight to behold though, when they go off on one they REALLY go off on one - lurches from calming and meditative to wild and seemingly structureless in seconds. Seb Rochford is a genius drummer. I enjoy his hair when he's drumming - it seems to hang still in space above his head as the rest of his body pivots around under it in a frenzy.

for my first reply since I absolutely love Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear and have not heard of Fulborne Teversham before so I'll go and listen to that! Seen AL live twice, and I keep missing PB last time I was in London they played there the day after I left and had before that played in Rotterdam (my then hometown) while I was in London...anyway will get to see them sometime

I remember I saw them play the Jazz tent on the last night of the Ashton Court Festival as completely unannanounced last minute replacements for some anonymous dull jazz outfit, to about 10 people, and they were fantastic.

4 The Boiler Room, Guildford
5 Curiosity - Mr Kyps at The Winchester, Bournemouth
6 Audio, Brighton
9 The Borderline, London
10 The Wardrobe, Leeds
11 Taylor John’s House, Coventry
12 Laila, Hastings
13 Joiner’s Arms, Southampton

If you have a chance to get to any of these dates I implore you to go along. The best live band I have ever seen by quite a bit, absolutely mindblowing.

they are great live...always have been. I see them about once a year and that satisfy's my needs. Polar Bear rocks too.