Tuesday 19 January 2010

"Other"

Coming up this season, we also have out new night "Other" thus named as it seeks to showcase the best of the new that is unclassified with regards to genre! We've all been there when someone asks you to define a sound and the difficult response of "Well.....its a little bit folk, a little bit jazz, with a hint of metal and opera..." that does sound like a frightening genre to behold but none the less "Other" seems to fit with us. The idea of the other option or the other alternative, so coming up on this bill we have the Mecury winning Speech Debelle, The Invisible and Micachu and the Shapes, all of whom excel both in and out of their genres. Speech's combination of beats and poetry, the big beats and soulful sounds of the invisible and the audio treats of Micachu. The night itself is a true mash up of different styles, and quite and unlikely trio to grace the same stage in any "Other" (pardon the pun) format. One thing they all have in common is a distinct sound, and a inventive use of their instruments, be that Speeches vocal, The Invisbles beats and breaks and Micachus mix of zither, drum machine, bottles and acoustic instruments in the mix!

More on Random Fridays coming up next!

Monday 11 January 2010

Happy new year!

We hardly know where to begin, ended last year in a bit of a flurry getting the new onsale so we are ready to run with it in for the new year, and what a year it is going to be, for those of you who have missed out on Vampire weekend tickets sign up to our mailing list or become a member to hear about these things first i can assure you that it will be well worth it for the year we have ahead.

Well running into this year with our arms flailing meant that there was no chance for us to do our end of year review, of which albums and artists we liked the best, so in the spirit of looking forward as opposed to back we have been having a think in the office about who is up to interesting things this year....

I'd say keep and eye out for the following:

  • Gold Panda
  • King Charles
  • Japandroids
  • Delphic

there's also lots of albums coming out this year to look forward too, for Arcade Fire. the elusive Beastie Boys album (maybe that will become like the Zach De La Rocha/DJ shadow album that is always floating around however we did finally get the guns and roses album last year!! Weather we liked it or not)...anyway i digress, pavilion favourite Goldfrapp has a new album out in Marc, LCD Soundsystem, Foals(if they dont sack another producer), Sufjan Stevens and the Gorillaz to name a few.

Right more to follow as resolution number one this year is to keep this blog updated!!!

Over and out!