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Friday 6th April 2012
All Day BBQ Festival

Bands:

- Sparrow and the Workshop
- 6 Day Riot
- The Nuns
- Colours
- Dignan Porch
- Y Niwl
- Singing Adams (solo)
- The Horses of Instruction

+ free BBQ
+ SoundsXP DJs

The Windmill
Brixton
Price: £7 in advance / £8 on door
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On Our iPod

Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Album Review

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Wolfroy Goes To Town Domino

Article written by Matt H - Nov 13, 2011

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - wolfboy gone to heaven

Is it possible to be too prolific? Simply keeping up with Will Oldham’s constant release schedule takes some doing. How he finds the time to record it all, let alone do the odd acting job, youtube comedy and interview R Kelly, who knows? It means that it’s all too easy to let a new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy record slide on by, ‘cos there’ll be another one along in a minute. That would be a particular shame with this latest.

Under his various monikers from Palace onwards Oldham’s blithely physical themes and individual, off-kilter language have become pretty well established. He has reached a place rather like Tom Waits, working entirely within his own parameters apart from everyone else (imitators just don’t get close); as if he were a one-man genre where none of the many releases are anything less than interesting. Wolfroy, for all its pink cartoon cover and nominal storyline, smacks less of pushing at boundaries tapping back into Oldham’s very finest work. Influences from recent outings have been retained - there’s the odd backing vocal and the occasional jaunty picking up of the country pace, but nowhere near as overtly. Mostly the songs as pared back as to be barely there at all, much in the manner of Master and Everyone or the brighter moments around Arise, Therefore. It’s as if he’s drawn everything back to himself, lending a greater weight and beauty to everything here.

I’m not really one to miss out on a Will Oldham record but it takes some dedication (and a few escape even my watchful eye). But if you were going to let this one go past, don’t. Stick your hand out and hop on. It’s well worth the ride.

Links:
http://www.bonnieprincebilly.com/
http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/bonnie-prince-billy