Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo at Cardiff The Point, Tue 07 Nov

Review by Will Dean

It's appropriate that the worship of the cult of Yo La Tengo took place in one of Wales's best venues. The Point is a converted church tucked in around the corner from the regenerated estate agent-trendy Cardiff Bay...»

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Yo La Tengo

At the begining of 1984, Georgia was working on an animated movie with her sister. I was mixing bands at Maxwell's. We'd play cover songs in our basement, emerging at the occasional party at which we'd get anybody we could coerce to play bass and, especially, to sing. We were also half of Jon Klage's backup band, but as Jon has just had a dream in which it was revealed to him that he would be kicking us out - commemorated in the title cut of his solo EP "In a Dream" - our days were numbered. Somewhere along the line we started writing a few songs...

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