Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Tomokiyo, Lily Fraser and Rougier

I went to the Betsy Trottwood yesterday (9th August). The pub has a really small venue room downstairs, it seems like there is hardly room for any audience a bit like being in someone's living room. A fair few people were in by the end though.

Rougier

First on was Rougier (sorry I could not find a website but see here).

Songs accompanied by accordion, angry songs, and funny. I did laugh at some of the lyrics, and although the set dragged a little in the middle, but ended well.

Lily Fraser

So after writing up the previous Lily Fraser gig I went to back in January it turns out that she is playing again and I can go, so here is the second entry for the same artist in as many weeks. In fact I wrote the previous article just to break things up a bit.

This was an acoustic gig with Lily singing, Milly Pay on harp and a new guitarist Greg Edwards, who had joined the band since I last saw them. The guitarist was very good and the harp and guitar work very well together.

The news is that there is going to be a new record out in about a month.

Tomokiyo

Last on were Tomokiyo They are said to mix elements of Coldplay and the Killers but I don't know about that, couldn't really hear either and its a strange combination. Never mind though, they were very good. I was going to leave early, as I had to be up early the next day, but ended up listening to their whole set.

Sunday, August 07, 2005

The shortwave set

I was listening to the CD that came with this month edition of the Word magazine with it just playing in the background and there was one song that leapt out as being good. It was Repeat to Fade by the The shortwave set. So I found out a bit more about them.

There are many samples, textures and out of the ordinary instruments and yet it remains a totally melodic gorgous song. Their album The Debt Collection was released last month.

They are playing a few support gigs with Goldfrapp this week.