Mainly for Magik Markers, but the other acts look interesting.

Old Time Relijun are one of my favourite bands. If they're still like they used to be you'll love them. Phil 'mount eerie/microphones'

Also Carla Bozulich! So excited.

Mainly for Old Time Relijun. The rest should be pretty good as well.

fairly excited about all the bands.

Magik Markers should be ace

i had no idea this was occurring :(
i love old time relijun

on my lonesome. Damn unadventurous friends.

Still, it's nice to know that even though i'm going for MM, the other two bands are going to be interesting.

bought Catharsis in Crisis recently - its like a very punk acoustic ladyland.. not seen them yet though..

Evangelista was really good. Reminded me of Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive. Magik Markers and Old Time Religion were aight. Old Time Relijun second best of the night but something about Evangelista was really captivating.

Cargo have stopped serving Brothers Cider which is a bit shit. Saw a few potential DiS people whilst smoking...didn't say hi to them. There you go...stick this on your reviews and smoke it or something.

MM/OTR were great. both are clearly great at what they do. wasn't so impressed with evangelista....seemed a bit messy and lacking in too many ways. i dunno.

also: utr are great, but rubbish at running gigs to schedule. 12am is too late for a midweek gig to finish, though i did stay until the end.

was stunning, really grabbed my attention. She's playing the Old Blue on Sunday, wish I could make it.

Having seen the Magik Markers be stunning before, I was really really disappointed last night. Only 4 songs and none of the intensity that they had at past shows.

Left after them because it was already near 11.

Her new band are so fucking awesome. I thought the addition of keyboards/laptop worked really well and the cellist was great but as always it her voice which makes them so stunning. I really wish the set was longer with more of the short punky numbers as they contrast really nicely with the more expansive songs.

I'm putting her and the band on at the Old Blue on Sunday if you enjoyed her you should come, she'll play a much longer set and the ace Polly Shang Kuan Band are supporting. Details:

http://www.last.fm/event/578857

I really enjoyed the whole thing, especially otr, arrington is a beast!! MM have it tough trying to incorporate their new song direction with the chaos of their earlier live sets but I think they're finding their own path. carla was great too and you have to give it up for the cellist!

one other thing about running times, last night only ran over by 25 minutes - apologies regardless, we try so hard to keep to schedule but sometimes this is impossible as we want every band to be happy and comfortable with their sound check (so that the show is as fun for them as the audience) and last night was particularly epic on the backline swapping front, hope you understand!

x

ps. totally go and see carla on sunday at the obl, more spooked atmospherics need to leak into the east end as a priority

tonight yo.