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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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Single/Download Review

Steve Abel
Heart of Misery (The Bough) Kins’land Records

Article written by Ged M - Oct 18, 2009

The Flax Happy album was a bit much to digest but I much prefer these bite sized chunks, especially as they contain the two best tracks on the album, both duets with the fantastic Texan ol’ timey singer Jolie Holland. One of them, ‘Heart of Misery (The Bough)’, is the lead track on this single, an intensely sorrowful ballad with a suicidal theme (“as I climb the ruffled tree/ I know life was not meant for me”). ‘Gone’ carries on the theme (“you’ll be free from me”) but ‘Sweetheart’ lets a little sunshine into his heart. Though a Kiwi, Abel’s Americana has strong echoes of Mark Eitzel and Micah P Hinson. In smaller doses, the emotional struggles he captures on disc make a lot more impact.

Links:
http://www.abelsong.com/
http://www.myspace.com/steveabelband