Our intrepid team go forward into the night later to bring you reviews of the hottest act in space rock, The Phantom Band, and the hotly tipped septics Vetiver. Sadly, we couldn’t get anyone to do The Wombats. You’ll just have to learn to live with disappointment.
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So, Ida Maria is back, and similar to The Ting Tings last week, not a conventional review as we have reviewed her live a few weeks ago. What did strike me is that, with both bands, the changing circumstances of when we first saw them. Ida Maria was a discovery by contributors and loyal friends [...]
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I first started attending gigs in the early 90′s. It was pretty much a male preserve at the time, to be honest. Women who attended gigs tended to be there with partners, and it was a fairly aggresive audience. Around about the time of Britpop, it became noticeable that the dynamic of the crowd was [...]
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Seeing as they are doing so well….. Here’s The Ting Tings on Jools Holland….. The Ting Tings She be pretty…..
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The Ting Tings, championed here on ELM, held off Madonna to hit Number 1 in the UK Pop Pickers chart yesterday. Which is weird, because the song (‘That’s Not My Name’) wasn’t exactly all over the radio, has been out before and it is a strange, arthythmic thing. ELM Towers are off to see the [...]
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Coventry’s Jam-clone hobbits the Enemy are apparently locked in a feud with stunningly average Manchester Oasis-copyists the Courteeners. It is unlikely, I’ll grant you, that we’ll need to send Henry Kissinger in to mediate on this dispute, but by God its tiresome. You cannot open the NME these days without seeing some band slagging some [...]
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As Talking Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’ welcomes them onstage, it’s a sell-out but disparate crowd the Ting Tings have attracted to Tuts this evening. From the students at the front to the young urban professionals at the back, the place is quietly pulsing with anticipation when they take to the stage. A boy/girl combo, [...]
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ELM Towers will be vacated this evening as we head out to see current press darlings the Ting Tings (full review tomorrow.) It’s a hot ticket gig and no mistake; the venue sold out very quickly on the strength of the ‘Great DJ’ single (which is as awesome a piece of throbbing art-disco as you [...]
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