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Morrissey at the Camden Roundhouse

Off to the Roundhouse again including the joy of staying at the Generator, but when are you going to get the chance to see Mozzer in a venue this small ever again?

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Russell Brand at the Camden Roundhouse

He’s everywhere else so he might as well be on here too. Caught his latest tour during a brief pause in the cavalcade of coughing and sneezing otherwise known as December.

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Taylor John's House wins best live venue in Godiva Awards

Taylor John's panorama, hope it's ok to use this...

Congratulations to the crew behind Taylor John's House at the Canal Basin in Coventry - winners of best live performance venue in Coventry and Warwickshire at this years' Godiva Awards.

It could be particularly timely because after the loss of the sister venue Tin Angel's entertainment licence in summer (apparently due to a noise complaint, in Spon Street of all places...), they're now in financial trouble. The current plan is to turn Taylor John's House into a non-profit community arts centre. Hopefully this award will throw some light on their situation and generate some further investment.

I think it's a real shame they couldn't run it as a profit-making business, but their focus is specialist and their audience is limited in Coventry. More info at their Save the Tin Angel and Taylor John's House campaign page.

Anyway, I'll be there at the Circus event tomorrow for the rampaging beast that is Jim and Invitation to Love.

The Polyphonic Spree at the Astoria

Almost an entire month after the event in question here is the account of going to see the band with almost certainly the biggest laundry bill in up-beat, symphonic, indie rock.

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Godiva Festival 2007: Human League

Don’t know why I’ve never seen the Human League live before. Think maybe it was because I was expecting a wedding disco shambles. When they came to Cov for the Godiva Festival, I had no excuse…

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Art Brut at Birmingham Academy 2

Back to the sweaty delights of the Academy alcove for my third round of the Art Brut live experience. Involved an awful lot of rain and a man who looked a bit like eddie murphy on steroids getting his kit off.

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The Aliens at Birmingham Academy 2

Even in the shameful annals of barely-relevant reviews found within the paper-jam archives this really does skirt around a bit before actually getting to the matter in hand. Still, the point is that going to gigs on your own isn’t all that bad. Especially when they are this good.

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The Young Knives, Birmingham Academy 31st May

Postponed from ages ago, I was very excited indeed at the prospect of seeing this trio of indie post punk pop accountants. So it seemed were the rest of the crowd. There were glow-sticks.

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Super Furry Animals @ Godiva Festival

new SFA logoI was almost ridiculously overjoyed when I discovered that (greatest band of their generation) Super Furry Animals are going to be headlining the free Godiva Festival in Coventry on July 14th. I immediately told or texted everyone that I thought might be interested, the highlights of the answers that I got were: "Errr, right", "cool" and "Feh".

I couldn't care less, I'm as excited as a six year-old on a kia-ora binge. It'll be great and will hopefully preceed a number of album releases from the great SFA to follow up the lovely Lovekraft (of which a poor and ill advised, even for me, review can be read here). Saw them the other year at the academy and it was great, but for some reason this web site is fucked and I can't link to it (was quality though, honest).

Jamie T at Wulfrun Hall 1st May 2007

A trip up to the jewel of the midlands, Wolverhampton, to see Jamie “Son of Mr” T, doing his indie, ragga, two-tone, rockabilly, nu-wave, grime, post-punk, emo, brit-pop, junglist thing in the flesh. Will he still call himself Jamie when he hits his thirties? Only time will tell.

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