I went with a work colleague. We both had a sense she could either walk offstage and end the gig or single out an audience e member and stab them to death. I’ve seen some excellent weird gigs over the years and often felt at risk - David Thomas fronting Pete Ubu swinging a hammer for 90 minutes comes to mind - but never quite as much as that. The genuinely disturbing bit was that it felt so obviously mannered.
Mrs DUU thinks I’m going slightly mad, but I really want to see Angine de Poitrine. She doesn’t get it at all, but I love it 
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They have been sufficiently hyped for me to show an interest but extended listening suggested all precision for precision sake. It didn’t sound to me like music which could go anywhere.
I have a feeling I’ll love seeing Aldous in concert!
@mikehughescq - and I only can wish I’d seen David Thomas/Pere Ubu.
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I didn’t know them so the hype wasn’t working. I just find microtonal interesting, like Indian music, Japanese music etc. There is something hypnotic about it . I suppose i listen to emotion more than tunes per se. I also find the technical use of the looper amazing especially when he is doing it on the hoof ( sorry for the pun), That is quite a feat ( Again no pun intended) . Each to their own.
I too find microtonal to be really interesting. Just not this.
Each to their own
Barb Jungr (ex Naim label artist) singing songs of Dylan and Cohen in Guildford (UK) next Saturday.
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Off to Lisbon on 1st June to see Father John Misty - ex drummer from the Fleet Foxes. He has a number of solo albums.
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Slowly beginning to ramp up my small number of gigs.
Next up is Rush in Canada. That’s followed by Bright Phoebus Revisited at the Stoller, Shawn Colvin in a church in Sheffield and now Cat Power at the Albert Hall in Manchester.
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I’ve liked Fink for a long while but never seen him live, so with this being only two days before the Melody Gardot gig at the RAH thought I’d better grab some tickets!
It’s going to be a great few days in the smoke!
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Secured tickets for Cat Power at the Albert Halls and Phoebe Bridgers at the awful Co-Op Live. Both in November.
Feel quite bad about the latter. Two of my Album Group colleagues are all big Phoebe fans. Needed 6 tickets between them for family. Had gone through the awful Co-Op booking process previously. I literally took out a Co-Op membership yesterday, sussed out how the 2 iOS apps interacted yesterday and managed to snag a disabled adult and companion ticket on one of the access platforms more by accident than design first go. My two album group buddies scored none.
Gig is phone free but I’ll be asking for an exception to that. They’ve already refused a mate on a “no exceptions: basis. They’re about to get a rude awakening.
Geese!!! Headlining at The End of the Road festival on the Thursday night at beginning of September
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Going to Friday night of Moseley Festival in September.
Don’t know most of the performers but booked because of Katherine Priddy and the superb Kingfishr who are headlining.
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