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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

Standard Fare
Out Of Sight, Out Of Town Melodic/Thee SPC

Article written by Matt H - Dec 12, 2011

Standard Fare - Model Villagers

So a band you like makes a second album. What do you want out of it? Really? Forget your radical departures. More of the same please. Problem is, it’s too often a watered down version of the first. Or cobbled together from the stuff that missed the cut. No such problems afflict Standard Fare.

On Out Of Sight, Out of Town their naive-yet-wise-beyond-its-years power pop picks up pretty much where The Noyelle Beat left off. Their virtues: an ear for a melody, gently punkish melody, youthful energy, down-to-earth but yearning lyrical standpoint; all remain intact. And of course that voice. Teetering along the edge of tunefulness but never falling off, Emma Cooper is that rarest of things in the indie world, truly distinctive. If anything the quality control is pushed up a notch, with a slightly fuller sound (friends and family crop up with a bit of brass and other adornments) and greater accomplishment, even if what were apparently meant to be disco tunes come out with a reggae beat (-ish, anyway). Some are bound to dismiss their straightforwardness as a lack of ambition. But along with Emma’s voice they’ve got a gentle sense of fun which sets them apart and will leave most listeners instead praising the universality of what they’re trying to do. They deserve those listeners.

Links:
http://www.standardfare.co.uk/
http://melodic.co.uk/outofsightoutoftown/
http://www.facebook.com/standardfare

Standard Fare - 051107 by In House Press