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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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Bracelettes/ Gold-Bears/ The Hairs/ The Ketamines/ The Medusa Snare/ The Vignettes
Odd Box Singles Club: Part 2 Odd Box Records

Article written by Ged M - Jan 19, 2012

The second triad of singles in the Odd Box singles club comes without part 1's fancy fripperies but is chocka with quality. If these tracks had been released on a compilation album, you’d be spilling Ribena down your top in sheer delight. It’s not fair to single anyone out so let’s use alphabetical order: Bracelettes are three London-based Japanese girls playing punky Ramones rhythms in frantic, feisty, no-quarter-given style. Breathless pace, breathtaking effect. Gold-Bears from Atlanta, Georgia produce fuzzy, C86-inflected indiepop with killer melodies. They've got some history (a Slumberland album and a Cloudberry single) which makes them capable, with ‘Bedroom’, of shoehorning a huge dollop of pop goodness into an 86 second single!

The Hairs are Kevin and Alex (Naidoo, from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart). ‘Feeling A Lot of Feelings’ is short but gloriously optimistic sunshine pop with defiant killer chorus - "not the sucker that you think I am" - while ‘Hey Hitler’ is 87 seconds full of huge sweeps of swoonsome pop gold (if you like Pete and the Pirates, you'll love this). The Ketamines hail from Alberta, Canada and include members of the excellent Myelin Sheaths and Fist City. ‘A Rotten Bond’ is dark and spooky garage rock with a brilliant menacing organ sound (shades of the early Horrors without a trip to the Boots' mascara counter) while '1 Yr' conjures up images of Alice Cooper and a zombified Count 5. Our old friends The Medusa Snare from Leeds only get one song but ‘I See You Look The Other Way’ is great galloping punk-pop with a memorable chorus – “the radio is not the only thing that failed us” – that hypnotises you like a snake. Last but not least are The Vignettes from Minneapolis, MN, two sparky girls called Francis and Freddi who play screechy, scratchy r'n'r with minimum fidelity and maximum Riot Grrl attitude. Bracing!

I love the Hairs and Ketamines but really it's gold stars all round and a strong recommendation to acquire all 3 releases as these are even better than the pretty decent Part 1.

Links:
http://oddboxrecords.com/