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Gig Review

Windmill/ Lonely Ghosts/ A&E Line
London, Windmill

Article written by Ged M - Apr 20, 2008

Windmill

“Windie Miller presents Windmill at the Windmill”. Who could resist such a gig title? The evening kicked off with A&E Line, three blokes in dress shirts and bow ties who sound a little like Bowie meets At The Drive In as they mutate from bastardised indie to twisted metal. The impression of borderline insanity is helped along by the keyboard player who makes escaped mental patient faces and ends the set throwing his shoes at the drummer and playing his keyboards with his toes. File under: loud/ mental/ fun. Lonely Ghosts is the alter ego of Tom Denney from Help She Can’t Swim. He kicks off solo with his prerecorded beats and his laptop auteur pop before being joined by the rest of the band and then sounding not a million miles from Help She Can’t Swim with a similar raucous but sly pop edge.

Windmill is Matthew Thomas Dillon but now he’s got a band (drummer, bassist and an amazing cellist) to create a beefy live sound. Featuring quirky dreampop from the wonderful Puddle City Racing Lights there’s a sense of anarchy in the set; bookended by the anthemic ‘Tokyo Moon’ and ‘Plastic Pre-Flight Seats’, most of the set of keyboard-led moody pop songs is interspersed with ad libbed song fragments and MTD’s funny fantasies that take the songs out of the bedroom and into some widescreen Technicolor landscape. He’s a Home Counties Flaming Lips with a similar sense of psychedelic adventure and is a complete joy to witness.

Links:
http://www.windmillmusic.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/aeline
http://www.myspace.com/windmillband