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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Hard Skin - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

R Ring - Fallout and Fire 7”

Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

The Mariner’s Children - Sycamore EP

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

The Fall - Sir William Wray 7"

Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (album)

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Demo Review

to my boy
The Grid / Mono

Article written by Mary B - Jan 21, 2007

I'm a bit of an electro head so it was with great eagerness that I placed the 'to my boy' cd in to my awaiting player. Great packaging - check. Good name - check. Great music - not sure. Oh dear, it's all a bit disappointing really. 'Is it evil or is it beautiful?' the press release asks me. Er, well neither really. Is it something that you've heard a million times before? I ask myself. Yes. After countless listens, desperate to like it because my first impressions insisted that I did, the best I can come up with is 'The Cure meets Kraftwerk for a cup of tea and realise that they can't really be bothered with the 21st century.' It's not that the song The Grid is bad. It goes through the musical motions. It's powerpop/electronica paint by numbers. And as the '2 piece futurist pop made with guitar and computer' (as it states on their website) band, strum and tap their way through the 'just shy of 3 minutes' track I find myself not caring if it ends or not. It's an 'ok' song but when you're faced with a demo mountain, 'ok' will not do. The lyrics say to me 'I'd like it if you were happy.' Well I'm not. It will not visit my player again anytime in the near future.

The other song Mono is simply awful, awful, awful. Where The Grid has some very well hidden good intentions, this song is Pacman for the musical masses. I seriously do not get where this song is supposed to be going. If someone can enlighten me, please do. It's simply annoying. It hurts to listen to it. It's as irritating as a child playing with a noisy toy but not as entertaining. The thing is if they cut out the Pacman soundtrack (listen to it and you'll understand what I mean) it could be salvaged, just. Am I being too harsh? Perhaps. My first impressions of 'to my boy' gave me a false sense of musical security. The opening line of this cd is 'Detach anchors from the frame'. I'm going to detach myself from 'to my boy' musical offerings instead if that's all right with you...

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