So its been a while. Been busy with work, Lost, Saints and more. Anyway what have I been doing and listening to? a lot is the answer!! Don't really know where to start. Will probably do a few posts over the next couple of days to catch up. Lets start with.......
Gig reviews/preview. I'll then do some
festival previews and a summary of
new music I've been listening to.
The second day of the
Camden Crawl didn't really happen for me:( I had to leave before all the evening fun started, but not before seeing the
Rumble Strips play in
the Crescent (by Mornington Crescent tube). The whole place was packed, absolutely no room to breath, let alone move (yet they were still letting people in!!). They were awesome, so despite the disappointment, I still had a brilliant couple of days.

Since then i've only managed to make it to a couple of gigs. The first was a trip to the
100 Club to see the farewell show for
Dustins Bar Mitzvah, with their raw, chaotic London punk. They were a band I'd liked for a year or so after getting hold of a few of their tunes:
To the Ramones,
Jimmy White,
BNP,
Get your mood on,
Lucy. I hadn't managed to see them before and so when I heard a couple of months ago that they were to split, I was mighty disappointed, until I heard about the farewell show. I certainly wasn't disappointed after. The crowd was wild, even though the place wasn't packed, the atmosphere was brilliant!!

My other live pleasure in May was the
NME new music tour at
Koko in Camden. Arriving to see the last song of the
Blood Red Shoes, sounded ok. Then came the
Little Ones, whose summery indie-pop tunes didn't blow me away, but made for a good listen.
Standout track: Face the Facts. Onto the reason I was there,
Pull Tiger Tail. One of my favourite new bands around, there sometimes spiky, sometimes swoony, electro-tinged indie is a winning combination! Standout tracks:
Let's Lightning,
Animator,
Hurricanes, actually all of them. Go Pull Tiger Tail!! Headliners the
Rumble Strips had a tough act to follow, but stood up to the challenge well. With bouncy indie-pop tunes like
Motorcycle,
No Soul and
Alarm Clock, they are definitely a band for this summer. The sax and trumpet definitely give them something different over many of they're peers and I expect more from these boys.