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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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The Black Twig Pickers
Whompyjawed Thrill Jockey

Article written by Michael H - Aug 24, 2012

Glorious. 'Whompyjawed' is a brilliant record consisting of two tracks of over ten minutes that will immediately make you want to move to the mountains.

'Merry Mountain Hoedown' is a transporting piece of music, crashing, swirling scraping music that demands you interact with it, it features heavily those most communal of sounds, laughter and clapping. The song is a twelve minute, furiously played, stomping triumph of banjos, violins, guitars and rudimentary percussion. Addictively repetitive but intricately woven, it doesn't relent for its entire duration.

The other side is the no less engaging 'Brushy Fork of John's Creek,' offering a slighly less party minded slice of woodland thumping. Structured, like the first song, around a core of spiralling, ever mutating string scraping and clattering group interplay, it soars and engages until its reluctant conclusion.

To talk much more about this record would be to delay listening to it again. Some music is simply for enjoying and this music is a head clearing, grin inducing, kicking, dancing victory over isolation and boredom. It simply makes you want to be near other people. Preferably people with banjos and advanced hoedown skills, but anyone will do.

Links:
www.thrilljockey.com
www.myspace.com/blacktwigs