Cath Aubergine (of
manchestermusic.co.uk) has written a review of our gig last Sunday in her
MySpace blog which I thought I'd post here so you can all read it. There should be another review of the night coming soon, courtesy of Sandman Magazine.
"Possibly an even sillier name than Ten Foot Toads is This Is My Lawnmower. The local attraction on this three-day package tour they've got a fair crowd in; mostly courtesy of a 14+ licence. The barman looks please to be able to sell me something, anyway. "OMG - indie!" shouts a hand-written sign pinned to Paul Halpin's keyboard; this they very much are. In the proper sense that is. No fashionista trousers or daft hair on these boys. A bit post-punk, a bit Muse and some brilliantly all-over-the-place keyboards; and singer Paul Rawson's not afraid to whip out a trumpet now and again whilst thankfully not over-using it. When he's singing, there are distinct tones of Morrissey in his swooping melodies. On "Commitment Clause" - definite single material, when the time comes to make one - they sound like Interpol doing the Klaxons. Or it might be the other way round. It's all rather wonderfully edgy, anyway - and following Glasvegas' "Be My Baby" and Robots In Disguise's "You Really Got Me" (see recent reviews) their enthusiastically demanded encore sees the week's third set-ending cover... a guitar-heavy and frankly deranged take on Whigfield's 90s Euromonster "Saturday Night". Quality stuff. No, really."