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Andy Hinton on this week’s best gigs
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week which begun with me thoroughly enjoying what will no doubt go down as the sweatiest gig of the year. The mighty Pharcyde played their classic Bizarre Ride II album to a Concorde 2 packed to the rafters. It has probably not gone unnoticed in my column that I am a bit of a hip-hop head and it was pleasing to see not just oldies like myself who remember when their masterpiece came out but plenty of youngsters too dancing and jumping about like loons from the off. We’ve got a review and some great pictures up on the site. After my rant the other week this was one gig where talking would not have been noticed but the band who started off the whole discussion, the marvellous Dark Dark Dark are at The Blind Tiger on Tuesday. This alt/folk, Americana band from Minneapolis are very special indeed. A group of immaculate musicians lead by the clear as crystal voice of Nona Marie and featuring one of the best (and most subtle drummers) I've ever seen. They are a band who have very much a cult following but everyone who I dragged along to their gig last year was instantly converted to the cause.
RELEASE THE BATS Tired of the same old cheesy ’80s nights? Give yourself over to the dark side at Caroline of Brunswick and enjoy the best goth and alternative tunes the ’80s had to offer. Caroline of Brunswick, Sat 27 July, 9pm, £2 M GENERATION I want my MTV! Thursday nights are all about indulging in the biggest mix of songs that grace the great MTV channel with their presence. If you have heard it there, you'll hear it here. Belushi's Below, Thu 25 July, 10pm, £3/2/1
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On Wednesday at The Green Door Store is Thomas Truax. An inventor of weird and wonderful instruments such as The Hornicator, The Mary Poppins and the Cadillac Beatspinner Wheel. Intrigued? He’s summed up by Alex Flynn as “the musically eccentric love child of David Lynch and Captain Beefheart who has been taught guitar by Ray Davies and been babysat by MacGyver”. Check out Alex’s preview on the site. I've never seen the guy but after hearing great things about his performance at The Hope last year I'm going to try to make it along to this one. The other big gig of the week (yep, things are starting to tail off for the summer) is Youth Lagoon at the Concorde 2 on Friday. Initially a bedroom project by American Trevor Powers, his first album, The Year Of Hibernation felt like a personal montage devoted to lost youth He’s now got a full band and his second album, Wondrous Bughouse, expands upon the epic but keeps that sense of the personal intact. For fans of Deerhunter, Animal Collective, as I said in my preview “This is psychedelic music that sounds completely modern and now”. More info at www.brightonnoise.co.uk Pic Tom Scrace
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