So the flimsy excuse for a new blog is the video below incorporating dodgy phone footage of Dum Dum Girls. And shooting the shit about Camden Crawl line-up.
The first point is the extra charge for the Roundhouse gigs - £6.50 isn’t much in the scheme of things but I object (even though I didn’t bother with them last year. Bastards. Anyway, this doesn’t present too much of an issue as the choice is -
Saturday
SECRET SPECIAL GUEST (show 2 - ..9pm..) Too drunk to care
SUGABABES + guests (show 1 - ..6pm..) fun but nah
Sunday
WE ARE SCIENTISTS + guests (show 2 - ..9pm..) underwhelming
LOSTPROPHETS + THE BLACKOUT (show 1 - ..6pm..) Not bothered but surely should head-line?
Apparently the Secret Special Guests one is free first come. I reckon Libertines as they seem to be down for Reading/Leeds.
So what am I expecting to go to, you ask in a fever of expectation?
Of the “red acts” – i.e. the acts in red on the mail out that seem to be nominal head-liners – Saturday only brings Drums that I might be willing to fight for out of TEENAGE FANCLUB * THE DRUMS * NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB * MS DYNAMITE. Which again makes things easier. Rest of evening is BILLY CHILDISH * CORNERSHOP * DEAD MEADOW * I BLAME COCO * PULLED
APART BY HORSES * SHY CHILD * SLOW CLUB * STORNOWAY * WE ARE THE OCEAN
AKALA * ART VS. SCIENCE * AUTOKRATZ * ....BEST.. ..COAST.... * BILLY VINCENT * BO
NINGEN * THE CHAPMAN FAMILY GRAFFITI 6 * HOLLY MIRANDA * THE HUNDRED
IN THE HANDS * JAMIE WOON * KASMS * LEFT WITH PICTURES THE LIKE * THE
LOST LEVELS * ....MT... ..KIMBIE.... * NECRO DEATHMORT * RACE HORSES * SILVER
COLUMNS * SPECTRALS STRICKEN CITY * TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS
Of the ones I know I’ve seen PAB Horses, Slow Club, Autokratz & Chapman Family and would recommend all apart from Slow Club. Chapman Family I’ll actually try to see to exchange some North/South unpleasantness. And I’m thinking Bo Ningen and Billy Childish who I really should have seen in more than Tracey Emin’s tent.
Sunday’s “reds” are more problematic GANG OF FOUR * ROOTS MANUVA * LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION * YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS – well ,seen Lightspeed a few times but the rest, bugger. Emotionally YMG, as Final Day was a touchstone of my Peel Years. But other than that I don’t actually know much. Gang Of Four would be best for recognition during alcohol fog. But musically Roots is golden (and in my experience urban gigs at Crawl are easier to walk into).
BABYBIRD * DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP * DELAYS * GOLD PANDA * POLAR
BEAR ROX * SPEECH DEBELLE * THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
ALAN POWNALL * CASIOKIDS * CHEW LIPS * CLOCK OPERA * COSMO JARVIS *
DRUMS OF DEATH * EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER * GAGGLE * GENERAL
FIASCO * HOOK & THE TWIN * INVASION * THE JIM JONES REVUE * JOE GIDEON
& THE SHARK * JOE WORRICKER * JOSH WELLER * KASSIDY * KATY B * KYTE *
OH NO ONO SHARKS * TUBELORD * WINTERSLEEP * YACHT
Seen Speech, Dan/Scroob, 80s, Invasion, Joe Gideon and Josh Weller (NB see Invasion and Josh) – nothing leaping out but I guess Drums Of Death and Tubelord.
STOP PRESS – Disgusting corporate rip off £70 top up VIP ticket introduced. Fuck Gaymers, I’m seriously considering giving it a miss and if not reckon it’ll be my last paying visit. Shame I love it so.
The first point is the extra charge for the Roundhouse gigs - £6.50 isn’t much in the scheme of things but I object (even though I didn’t bother with them last year. Bastards. Anyway, this doesn’t present too much of an issue as the choice is -
Saturday
SECRET SPECIAL GUEST (show 2 - ..9pm..) Too drunk to care
SUGABABES + guests (show 1 - ..6pm..) fun but nah
Sunday
WE ARE SCIENTISTS + guests (show 2 - ..9pm..) underwhelming
LOSTPROPHETS + THE BLACKOUT (show 1 - ..6pm..) Not bothered but surely should head-line?
Apparently the Secret Special Guests one is free first come. I reckon Libertines as they seem to be down for Reading/Leeds.
So what am I expecting to go to, you ask in a fever of expectation?
Of the “red acts” – i.e. the acts in red on the mail out that seem to be nominal head-liners – Saturday only brings Drums that I might be willing to fight for out of TEENAGE FANCLUB * THE DRUMS * NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB * MS DYNAMITE. Which again makes things easier. Rest of evening is BILLY CHILDISH * CORNERSHOP * DEAD MEADOW * I BLAME COCO * PULLED
APART BY HORSES * SHY CHILD * SLOW CLUB * STORNOWAY * WE ARE THE OCEAN
AKALA * ART VS. SCIENCE * AUTOKRATZ * ....BEST.. ..COAST.... * BILLY VINCENT * BO
NINGEN * THE CHAPMAN FAMILY GRAFFITI 6 * HOLLY MIRANDA * THE HUNDRED
IN THE HANDS * JAMIE WOON * KASMS * LEFT WITH PICTURES THE LIKE * THE
LOST LEVELS * ....MT... ..KIMBIE.... * NECRO DEATHMORT * RACE HORSES * SILVER
COLUMNS * SPECTRALS STRICKEN CITY * TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS
Of the ones I know I’ve seen PAB Horses, Slow Club, Autokratz & Chapman Family and would recommend all apart from Slow Club. Chapman Family I’ll actually try to see to exchange some North/South unpleasantness. And I’m thinking Bo Ningen and Billy Childish who I really should have seen in more than Tracey Emin’s tent.
Sunday’s “reds” are more problematic GANG OF FOUR * ROOTS MANUVA * LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION * YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS – well ,seen Lightspeed a few times but the rest, bugger. Emotionally YMG, as Final Day was a touchstone of my Peel Years. But other than that I don’t actually know much. Gang Of Four would be best for recognition during alcohol fog. But musically Roots is golden (and in my experience urban gigs at Crawl are easier to walk into).
BABYBIRD * DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP * DELAYS * GOLD PANDA * POLAR
BEAR ROX * SPEECH DEBELLE * THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
ALAN POWNALL * CASIOKIDS * CHEW LIPS * CLOCK OPERA * COSMO JARVIS *
DRUMS OF DEATH * EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER * GAGGLE * GENERAL
FIASCO * HOOK & THE TWIN * INVASION * THE JIM JONES REVUE * JOE GIDEON
& THE SHARK * JOE WORRICKER * JOSH WELLER * KASSIDY * KATY B * KYTE *
OH NO ONO SHARKS * TUBELORD * WINTERSLEEP * YACHT
Seen Speech, Dan/Scroob, 80s, Invasion, Joe Gideon and Josh Weller (NB see Invasion and Josh) – nothing leaping out but I guess Drums Of Death and Tubelord.
STOP PRESS – Disgusting corporate rip off £70 top up VIP ticket introduced. Fuck Gaymers, I’m seriously considering giving it a miss and if not reckon it’ll be my last paying visit. Shame I love it so.
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