Out with the not so old, in with the new!!

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.