Tag Archives: london

The Mae Shi/Dananananaykroyd

Dananananaykroyd
Second time I’ve seen them, and just as much fun. Running around in the audience, screaming vocals, tons of energy and drumming to die for.
The Mae Shi
Hugely entertaining and very crowd-pleasing. Slight hints of math rock with 8-bit backdrops.
Bonus entertainment points for Calum Gunn’s comedy raffle at the end.
The Mae Shi at The Old Blue […]

Death Cab For Cutie/Styrofoam

Styrofoam
Indie-electronica with a dash of 80s synth. Pretty upbeat and good fun and reminiscent of Postal Service, making them an obvious support act. I also dig that they’re Belgian.
Death Cab for Cutie
Difficult to be objective about a band you’re sentimentally attached to, but they were a good show. To play to the […]

Pinback/Phosphorescent/Prego

Prego
Post-rock by numbers. Accomplished, but boring
Phosphorescent
Beautiful voice and keys. Shame about the bassist and his attention seeking ways. A good find, regardless.
Pinback
Keeping it old skool with plenty of non photo-blue vibes. Pity 95% of the audience had never heard it and it’s chums though.
Pinback at Scala, 15th July 2008

London Microformats vEvent

It was the end of 2006 when Drew Mclellan and I threw the last microformat event in London and now it’s almost 2008 and we haven’t had another. Cryin’ shame, I say.
So, we’re going to hold another event. We’re ironing out the details, but the bones of it will be a mostly social […]

Microformats London social

Drew Mclellan (developer of the awesome hKit) and I have discussed a Microformats Social here in the UK for a while but never got anywhere with it, but now we’ve named a date and want to see levels of interest.
We’ve gone for a Saturday - 30th September. So, it’s a little breather […]