Yes, four great acts on show, and its on a Friday, and two are from America, and we're going to enjoy ourselves...
She Keeps Bees have been added to the bill on Friday August 21st... Tickets still available. All the links and information below. See you there!
Let’s go baboon presents...
Friday 21st August 2009 at The Wilmington Arms
GOLDEN ANIMALS (US)– www.myspace.com/goldenanimals
SHE KEEPS BEES (US) – www.myspace.com/shekeepsbees
NEW MORNING BLUES – www.myspace.com/newmorningblues
THE SILVER ABDUCTION – www.myspace.com/thesilverabduction
£5 adv / £3.50 NUS / £6 door – www.wegottickets.com/event/54241
8pm till late...
This is a must see, rare central London show from one of the finest live acts around. They are performing as part of their festival tour (Summer Sundae and Green Man). They provide an intense psychedelic blast of far-out blues rock following the traditions set by The Doors. File with Two Gallants, Dead Meadow, Kings of Leon... Golden Animals were an experience. The smell of incense, the sheer wall of sound that attacked the senses, and these two rockers going at it really took the audience to a place out of time. LoudVine.com We’re delighted to add She Keeps Bees to the line up. Here is a recent review from The Guardian: This stripped-down blues-rock duo are an anomaly in their adopted home of Brooklyn. While most of their neighbours are painting alt-pop into kaleidoscopic new colours, this compelling debut cleaves to a version of rock that is sparse, soulful and defiantly retro. White Stripes comparisons are inevitable, not least because of the thrillingly primal way Andy LaPlant thumps the drums, but it is raw emotion akin to Cat Power that comes through most strongly on tracks such as "Release" and the startling "Bones Are Tired", on which Jessica Larrabee's unadorned voice is at its most desolate. Like Television playing songs from The Last Waltz... low down dirty troubled blues in the Jesus and Mary Chain mould, building up a strong London following, they’ve recently at Alan McGee’s Death Disco night and are formed by Ian De Sylva who has recorded for Rough trade and Medicine...
The phenomenal new project from vocalist Allison Brice (The Eighteenth Day of May) and composer / producer / all around pop-svengali Andy Dragazis (Blue States). The Silver Abduction's music enjoys a slightly otherworldly 1950’s feel, but with an entirely modern expression. Lush arrangements perfectly compliment Allison’s mesmeric vocals, and the result is an entirely unique sound, rich and enchanting...