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I love these photographs
you bring out the character of the musicians so well, and the fan shots are simply stunning.
I think my favourites are the O. Children & Fanfarlo ones. Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to this
It'll be good to see Grammatics again. They were so good at Brainwash Festival last year.
DG is correct on the sound
- I'm glad it got sorted as I gave up on it after a while.
The sound set-up was far better at the second performance.
In fairness to the soundman though, he had to try to combat the sound coming up from Reds below.
Thanks to your post I'm listening to the Stricken City album
I missed that this had been issued - as long ago as Sept 09.
I love this band. They need a bit more promo.
This is my list
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2. The Field – Yesterday and Today
3. Gentle Friendly – RIDE SLOW
4. The Horrors – Primary Colours
5. The Maccabees – Wall Of Arms
6. Cold Cave – Love Comes Close
7. The Strange Boys – The Strange Boys and Girls Club
8. A Grave With No Name – Mountain Debris
9. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
10. YACHT – See Mystery Lights
11. Micachu – Jewellery
12. Women – WOMEN
13. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
14. The xx – xx
15. Wavves – Wavves
I had a somewhat different experience at the Warehouse Project and at the Sheffield gig
My summary review of the Sheffield gig:
http://www.last.fm/event/1244353+The+Field+at+Bungalows+and+Bears+on+16+November+2009/reviews
I just read this fantastic review
I've been listening to this record all week, and I'm massively into it, as I was to the first album.
It's a storming album alright
and I've long since accepted that 7/10 is good enough for me.
Is this the piano from Night & Day?
I hope so; the top fell off the other night.
I'm going down for Nail the Cross, and I'm looking forward to seeing AGWNN.
I've just been at the first of those dates
and Vessels were totally awesome. They are a very accomplished band. I'll be seeing them at Brainwash I hope.
Sounds good
I'm downloading this now from emusic
I'm just downloading this from emusic
I've no idea if I'll like this, but it does sound good from this review.
this is going to be so good!
I got my ticket booked.
I really like this album
it has really grown on me, after a mixed start. I really enjoyed the first listens on LastFM, but after I bought it I went a bit cool on it. Pleased to say it has seen grown on me a lot.
For what little it's worth
I would now vote for Speech Debelle, and I really love The Horrors & The Invisible.
I'm after this, I know quite a few of these bands
.. well done for including We Aeronauts - winners of the Green Man Poll
I saw them at Green Man:
I'm really looking forward to this album
I've seen Mumford & Sons twice this year, at Live at Leeds and Oxegen, and they were brilliant at both.
The album is not yet listed in the UTR shop
which is weird given UTR say it was released in June 2009, and it even has a catalogue number (UTR028):
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/gayagainstyou.shtml
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml
anyway I've signed up for their mailing list, so hopefully they'll let us know when it's available
So in the spirit intended I am checking out the one's I don't know
I have to say I am impressed with Patrick Wolf's The Batchelor on first listen.
I now realise that i had somehow built totally false impressions of this album, possibly because l expected it to sound more like Accident & Emergency, which it does not. There is much less drama, and his voice is stronger and better than I expected.
hehe - you've been done as well
thanks, that is very kind of you!
I've been totally punked four times by this band :-)
- so I may as well go for a fifth
Does this album have a tracklisting? If so (says he pissing in his own drinking water) I would appreciate the track-listing as the enhanced-CD I bought from them is nothing more than untagged tracks on a CDR.
I really appreciate this excellent review. Thanks Mark_P
:-)
Saw these guys tonight
and I bought the album yesterday.
Listening to the build up of several of the songs 'It's Thunder and It's Lightning' and 'Keeping Warm', an image forms in my mind - it is of a magnificent mountain, at first just the overall fine form is noticed, but as you get closer dramatic pinnacles can be seen, you follow them up towards the sky and suddenly over the top an entire vista emerges of the wonderful scene which surrounds this superb edifice.
This is no slab of granite, this is no Grampian height, no this is an ancient Torridonian gem:
http://www.deaconguthrie.co.uk/stacp.html
http://www.rsgs.org/ifa/gems/landformpolly.html
and that's just the guitars.
I really like this album
well done guys
I arrived from The Horrors just in time to see this
I was mystified as to what was happening at the time. I thought the soundman had pulled the plug as he was out of time.
I'm sorry for the guy, I hope he gets help.
I rated this 9/10
I was wrong. It is better than that.
xx
Another excellent DiS gig
I recently saw School of Seven Bells supporting White Lies at Academy 1 in Manchester, where they really impressed. The foresight in booking these two great bands early gave DiS & The Harley the opportunity to demonstrate that it can spot emerging talent. So well done!
Pictures like this are such a useful addition to the live experience as inevitably the photographer can get a view you can't (in my case, that of the first band to play - Telepathe - as I arrived so late I was at the very back).
I just want to say how much I appreciate these features.
I love this - thank you!
- some good choices there
Photo 13 finally answers my question
'where does that awesome sound come from'.
It's a brilliant shot which captures the special uniqueness of Rolo Tomassi rather well IMO.
I'm late to the party
but this is a really good album. I feel a dumb-ass as I just missed the UK tour :(
I'll catch them at Oxegen though!
Blinks twice
oh it's there .. nice ... thanks!!
Magnificent
.. and yes I went straight for Ride .. personally I suggest that you add 'Nowhere' in place of 'Tarantula'
I'm a big fan of both Ride & Mark Gardener
My favourite Ride song is Chrome Waves:
"One hundred years from now
See the chrome, can't hear it move
I'll meet you on the way down
Wrapped around somebody's hand
We've all moved on from here
The colour's running dry
A drowsy line of wasted time
Bathes my open mind
This strange machinery
Is keeping you from seeing me
I'll meet you on the way down
Can't stay - unbearable to go"
My favourite of Mark's songs with Goldrush is Magdelen Sky.
I just saw this in Manchester
I really do think Rolo Tomassi are the best live band that I've seen. In fact all three bands are great, and better every time I've seen them (which is about five times).
loving this
very much
I quite like RLC
indeed I have discovered this evening that I have recorded Arts & Crafts four times on Sky+.
Why do I Iike that song, and why do I still think there is something wrong?
Well being positive, there is that distinct air of summery 'Dodgy' type vibe to this.
Being more skeptical and pedantic, well I mean to say - how can you sing about Arts & Crafts and not feature one of the wonderful images from that time. FFS at least a William Morris, better still a Walter Crane illustration.
Authenticity lost.
all I see is the credit
or have you changed your minds?
'Pictures'
you say?
I've been a bit slow here
this is excellent
I was there for Grammatics, but saw all three bands
I bought my copy of the Grammatics album from Emilia at her lovely stall - it turned out to be the last copy she had. Indeed I had to lend it to Owen's sister so she could show it to a friend.
I'm excited for these guys, they've got a good year lined up :)
I then went to see Red Light Company, who were OK - I like Arts & Crafts.
Not that I'm quibbling
but anyone who can introduce both vacuum cleaners and calculators into a debut album and make it as poppy as this deserves huge kudos. It is consistently good. This gets 9.5/10 from me.
Call me what you like, but
I am enjoying this record, very much.

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absolutely right