Easycome Acoustic, 25th Feb, 2015.
There’s nowhere like home, and home on a Wednesday night in South London is Easycome Acoustic, hosted by the loveable/irascible Andy Allan. There’s been some spectacularly moving, intense, intimate, explosive nights here over the years. Long may it be so.
The Severed Limb 7″ single launch party (with Orchestre Du Mont-Plaisant)
Two great bands grace the stage of hallowed Windmill to celebrate the 7″ Double-A Single release “If You Ain’t Livin'” “Tidy is a Vulture.”
The Weeks, Swampmother Live At The Windmill, Brixton
I had the double pleasure of photographing two bands I’d never seen before. Tim Perry of The Windmill gave me the heads up that they weren’t to be missed and he wasn’t wrong. The Weeks crammed in a secret one nighter before heading back home to Mississippi having drunk The Windmill dry of Tequila. Swampmother ground out some quality, dirty riff-strewn blues with explosive percussion. Headliners The Weeks played their southern rock to a full house of die-hard fans with an affectionate zeal, and degree of self parody that added much humour to their infectious danceable sound. Left the place clammy and clamouring for more.
Good Sad Happy Bad, Madonnatron, Vita Breve, Live at The Windmill, Brixton.
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Misty Miller, Shame, Shark Dentist @ The Windmill, Brixton.
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Slide-Out, Fat White Family, The Chins, Zoetrope, Slim Customers. Queen’s Head, Brixton
Slide-Out, Fat White Family, The Chins, Zoetrope, Slim Customers. Queen’s Head, Brixton.
Misty Miller at Paper Dress Vintage Video and Pictures
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Fat White Family/ Voodoo Binmen @ Catch
Photo set from last night’s gig at Catch. Lighting for Fat Whites too crap for filming (why even have lights if you don’t use them!)
Fat White Family Hackney Working Girls Club
Misty Miller @ Oxjam, Windmill, Brixton
Took Bombi to the Windmill to catch Misty’s set. Here are a handful of shots I managed to grab.
Slidefest Highlights, best of the rest from the night.
Highlights of the Slide Fest, best of the rest. In order of appearance…. Adam J Harmer, The One Man Destruction Show, Tash and Beth, Transcoda, Zoetrope, Black Manila.
Slide Fest Fat Whites Album launch party/ farewell gig
Road Testing! The Fat White Family, Misty Miller, One Man Destruction Show LIVE @ Paper Dress Vintage
Some photos of the Night.
Got there too late for One Man Destruction Show. Videos to follow…
Easycome Acoustic Highlights, 13th June 2012
Highlights of Hank Dog’s Easycome acoustic night from Wed 13 june 2012, featuring Flameproof Moth, Gregg Kolfi Brown,Lewis Floyd Henry, Misty Miller and Sasha Adamczewski.
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- Flameproof Moth
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- Lewis Floyd Henry
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- Misty Miller
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- Misty Miller
SupaJam/ Gibson Jubilee Boat Party
Supajam invited me to record the events of the Gibson Guitar UK/ SupaJam spring/ summer EP series launch party on
Tamesis Dock, a boat moored on the Thames, on June 4th
Bands featuring on the EP played a showcase set, highlights of which appear on this page.
To read a full review of the evening’s proceedings written by the incisive and insightful Mister Charlie visit http://www.supajam.com/review/show/SupaJam-Gibson-Jubilee-Boat-Party
BLACK MANILA
Headlining our show and fresh back from a string of sold out European dates, Black Manila marry dancefloor killing, bass throbbing grooves to pure sweet garage rock grit. Taking a pinch of Velvet Underground, a shnifter of Black Lips and adding a pulsing, London heartbeat, their debut single Fiasco has been getting spun on NME Radio, and picked up Single of the Day from Clash Magazine. They’re on the verge of great things, catch em before they blow…
www.blackmanila.com
DIGNAN PORCH
With a single on Captured Tracks that moved The Fader to describe Dignan Porch as “so perfect they feel timeless”, the Tooting 5 piece sling slacker riffs over psychedelic swirls to conjure a glowing world of fuzzy tripped-out fantasy. Drowned in Sound have frothed over their ‘excellent’ debut album, Vice and Pitchfork have both tipped them for big things, they’ve another album coming this year, and it’s time you saw what all the fuss is about!
www.dignanporch.com
FAT WHITE FAMILY
The best live band in London, bar none, Fat Whites are pretty new, and pretty amazing. Nihilistic lyrics, raging punk energy, towering edifices of crunching rock n roll riffs and tumble weed trills of Spaghetti Western guitar, all encased in a bleakly funny humour make them utterly essential. Watching Fat Whites play is good for your soul and bad for your liver.
www.facebook.com/fatwhitefamily
COLD IN BERLIN
Plying icicle shards of early 80s influenced goth-punk, Cold in Berlin have become the darlings of Artrocker magazine, picking up a 5* review for their debut album. With shades of The Cure, and the dark mystique of classic Banshees, CiB have become as renowned for their commanding live show as they have their excellent records.
www.coldinberlin.com
Here is a video of the highlights from the night. Black Manila 2nd track is not England as titled.
Fat White Family @ Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
Slide in @ the QH
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