So it seems I haven't vanished off the face of the earth, I'm still very much alive and well despite various rumours circulating the media of alien abductions, kidnappings and sexual predators....ok I joke, it's just been a totally hectic month and I've been pretty in the clouds with my thoughts.
What's new? I went to see the brilliant David Ford and Low Anthem at the Shepherd's Bush Empire about 10 days ago which was awesome, a beautiful gig...which I stupidly forgot to take my camera too, so no videos....doh!
Someone else thankfully caught some of it, so here's someone elses video of David Ford. This is State of the Union which is a real performance of incredible musicianship - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5qWsG21F4 - take a look, you'll see what I mean!
Low Anthem were a total unknown quantity to me, but I was seriously impressed with them. In particular something which I would say was the most industriously brilliant and creative use of day to day technology to create the most mesmeric sound. The song in question is This God Damn House and the premise was that the crowd were asked to call the person sitting next to them, turn each phone so that the speaker of one was next to the microphone of the other and the reverb effect was....mesmeric. Sadly there's no video of Shepherd's Bush but there are other videos. This was in Dublin a few days earlier (stick with it all the way through) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHVkaN5FLo and this was just a short clip I found from their Manchester gig which actually picks up the sound even better. It's totally mindblowing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvCNpJDMfo
Ok so now you know I'm safe and still living just another tidbit of news...if you're wondering why I've gone quiet...well I'm in the throws of something pretty exciting right now which requires a lot of attention. Needless to say it won;t be long before it gets announced to the world...wahoo!
Anyways it's late in London...nearly 2am.
Night peoples xxx
