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The See Hear Club, the night I run with my two friends Luisa and Rosa, is back this summer at Dalston Roof Park.

03/05/12: Mariee Sioux +  Film TBC – Tickets
04/06/12: Among Brothers + Drive – Tickets
27/06/12: Land Shapes + Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Tickets
25/07/12: Eyes and No Eyes + Film TBC – Tickets

http://www.seehearclub.com

More bands and more info soon. Hope to see you there.

One of my favourite Orby songs. It appears on ‘Orbisongs’. Gotta love Roy.

UGH SO GOOD

Peggy Sue have made a really great record! All those ties to Mumford and Marling and the UK ‘folk’ scene are completely irrelevant because they sound nothing like that. I reckon lumping them in with that lot is kind of like calling a wedding cake a cupcake. But anyway, lazy associations aside; they’ve made a terrific album which you can buy from Rough Trade.

Ooooh.

I love this track. I didn’t like the other Purity Ring tracks I had heard previously, but I’m into this.

Listen here.

Yesterday was pretty much the warmest and loveliest day we’ve had this year. After work I wandered down the road to Rough Trade and ended up watching Smith Westerns play a set. I love Rough Trade.

The sound was very ropey and they seemed to have the least sturdy mic stands in London. Even if it is completely unoriginal music, (it sounds like literally a million other things) some of the tunes and guitar solos on the album are lovely. That opening guitar riff in ‘Weekend’ is super catchy. It’s good throw away pop music.

But the singer came across as real stroppy, and when you drawl stuff like ‘uh, if anyone has any drugs to sell to us; see us after the show’ in your set I think it makes you come across as pretty lame.

THUMBS DOWN.

… missing SXSW.

On the plane to Texas I watched Stand By Me on the silly little screen, and you know the bit where they’re all in Chopper’s junkyard place? And Vern says something like ‘this is really great, guys’ and the narrator says something along the lines of ‘Vern didn’t just mean hiking up the railroad or sitting in the junkyard, he really meant something more. And we all knew it and felt the same’. I am too lazy to look up the exact quote, but it was something along those lines.

ANYWAY. The sentiment is the same. While I was there I knew it was a really great time.

And also when they are in the swamp and Teddy says ‘I’m in the prime of my youth and I’ll only be young once!!’.

Yeah, that too.

Funtimes.

The Local + The Allotment present

THOUSANDS at the Slaughtered Lamb

+ Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou + Adam Stockdale + Daniel Brayson

Tuesday 31st March 2011 //  TICKETS

I am excited to announce I am coming on board with my friends The Local to co-promote a show with Bella Union’s brilliant THOUSANDS.

I caught the band in Texas last week and they are brilliant. Their wonderfully delicate and tender album ‘The Sound of Everything’ was released recently on Bella Union. They are a duo; Kristian and Luke, and hail from Seattle.

You don’t want to miss this beautiful, intimate show at The Slaughtered Lamb.

They do good sausage and chips there. The mayo and ketchup come in nice pots.

NOT TO BE MISSED!

Check it out!

At work over the past coupla months I’ve been helping to organize our SXSW party for this March. Bella is teaming up with Yours Truly. There are free tacos and a ridiculous amount of free beer. From what I hear the venue is the loveliest around. I can’t wait.

I’m not sure if I’m going to have a mobile phone in Austin yet or not, but if not, you should come to this party! I will be around all day and will hopefully be easy to find.

Here is a video Alessi, Alessi’s mum and I all made together over in Hammersmith on a sunny winter’s day.

Alessi’s new album ‘Time Travel’ comes out on Bella Union in April.

Hi hi hi hi. Just a heads up that these 3 shows are ALL selling very well and they may even be sell outs, so if you definitely want to come make sure you buy your tickets now or soon.

February 21st 2011: Sea of Bees w/Joe Innes at the Gallery Cafe (Tickets)
February 24th 2011: Sea of Bees w/Jess Bryant at the Wilmington Arms (Tickets)
February 26th 2011: Sea of Bees w/Laura Hocking at Westminster Reference Library (Tickets)

Or if you’re my friend in real life make sure you tell me you want to come (and to which one) so I can save you a ticket (!!!).