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Friday 6th April 2012
All Day BBQ Festival

Sparrow and the Workshop
6 Day Riot
The Nuns
Singing Adams
Y Niwl
Colours
Dignan Porch
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The Windmill
Brixton
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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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Piney Gir and the Age of Reason
London, Relentless Garage

Article written by Ged M - Sep 17, 2009

Piney Gir and the Age of Reason

When we first encountered Angela Penhaligon about five years ago, she was electro-Piney, perched behind her synth or with keytar strapped on, playing kaleidoscopic pop songs with a strong sense of the fantastic. Then she was country Piney with her Roadshow, full of howdy-doody and heartbreak (and wasn’t Lily Allen’s last single a shameless steal from torch'n'twang Piney?). And now, approaching the release of her third album The Yearling, she’s chanteuse Piney, with a span of songs as wide as the prairie in her home state of Kansas.

Tonight her sense of theatre is in overdrive, as she conjures up lonely ghosts, romantic bumblebees and bickering lovers, while her musical style is equally restless, covering cabaret tunes, parlour waltzes, freak-folk and twisted pop. It’s intoxicatingly strange. ‘Great Divide’ is slowed down to a bossa nova beat while the wonderfully strange ‘Miss Haversham’ is soulfully drenched in romance and regret. There’s nothing as boring as formula in Piney’s songs but one of her finest new songs is nothing kooky, just straightforward pop: ‘Say I’m Sorry’ melds the Go-Gos to a Beatle-esque chorus to brilliant effect. Throughout this evening Piney wears a smile of innocent wonder as she feeds us sugarsweet melodies but there’s a hardnosed pop sensibility at work that keeps her producing those bittersweet treats.

Links:
http://www.pineygir.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pineygir