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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

Veronica Falls
Veronica Falls Bella Union

Article written by Ged M - Nov 17, 2011

Veronica Falls

You know exactly where Veronica Falls are coming from – their influences clearly include the Pastels, the Wedding Present and 80s-vintage Flying Nun outfits like the Verlaines – but their songs are played with such speed and poise that you’re looking forwards rather than backwards. There’s a gothic edge to some of these tales, that deal with loss in all its forms (death, winter, your lover marrying the wrong partner), but all those themes are slightly tongue-in-cheek. You hear the indiepop blast and sweet boy-girl harmonies of ‘Found Love In A Graveyard’ and respond to the sound rather than the necrophiliac subject matter and ‘Beachy Head’ might be about leaping to your doom lyrically but musically its thrashy guitar pop sound is the most addictive element.

So “fast” they can do. But what marks them out from the C86-inspired pop outfits is what else they’re capable of. The singing in rounds that precedes ‘Bad Feeling’ is a big surprise, even though it then becomes whip-sharp surf-pop thereafter, and there’s a clear echo of Simon and Garfunkel in ‘The Fountain’. And ‘Stephen’ lifts the mood completely, being a joyful, sunny and completely innocent jangly tune. Most of the record is just great indiepop without the need for too much subtextual analysis but the final track ‘Come On Over’ suggests they have something else as well: it’s seriously good, dynamic, skittering indiepop infused with a punky spirit.

This is a very satisfying record that’s fast, funny and unpretentious, with impeccable musical sources, and it’s not just the spooky tales that send a tingle up the spine.

Links:
http://veronicafalls.com/
http://www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard