What The Hell Is Going On? #9: Club Rockfeedback Week
By: Thomas Hannan
There’s nothing that makes you realise how much you love music quite like moving house. I recently underwent such an ordeal, and revealed to myself precisely to what extent my obsession with sounds and rhythms dominates my life. Not only was a good sixty percent of the stuff I was moving music related (guitars, a piano, speakers, a few thousand records), but as of this minute, I’ve been in two days, and that’s the only stuff I’ve unpacked. I can tell you exactly where Tom Waits’ Small Change is. Yet I still don’t know the whereabouts of most of my clothes. Luckily, working at Rockfeedback, that kind of attitude is encouraged rather than mocked (and I’ve managed to locate enough clothes to turn up at work without my lack of attire being deemed “an issue”).
We’re coming to the final quarter of what’s definitely been Rockfeedback’s finest year yet, with massive leaps and bounds across everything we do online, with our TV crew and in our club nights. Speaking of the club nights, we’re dedicating this week on Rockfeedback TV to them, once a day bringing you performances and interviews from bands who played blinders at our regular Club Rockfeedback evenings in the past 12 months.
We start today with Blue Roses, the alter ego of songstress Laura Groves (pictured above), whose stop-you-in-your-tracks falsetto and way with a melody charmed the pants of everyone in attendance at Club Rockfeedback in July. She’s followed by something entirely different, the whiskey soaked ramblings of The Strange Boys filmed at a secret East London warehouse show we co-promoted with Rough Trade and This Is Music. We take a look back to our days at the Camden Monarch on Wednesday by unveiling Pete & The Pirates contribution to our live history, whilst Thursday has us heading back to the Lexington for a show from up and comers Local Natives earlier this summer. We end on a particularly joyous note on Friday with Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros delivering one of the most communally gratifying gigs we’ve ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Throughout, their sets are documented with love and affection, and we try our darnedest to make sure the interviews contain just the right mix of hilarity and insight. As ever.
Speaking of club nights, we’re also running one this week – an album launch from the massively influential Billy Mahonie, with support from Gyratory System and Kogumaza. We’ve got some more details on that one if you want them, or if you just trust us implicitly, you can buy yourself some tickets. Come say hello - given that it’s a math-y, post rock-y kinda evening, I’ll be down the front wearing my Shellac t-shirt. If I can remember what bag I left it in.
Tom.x