What The Hell Is Going On? #18 : Rockfeedback’s World Tour Pt. 7
By: Thomas Hannan
Hi hi.
We don’t slow down for Christmas. We run at Christmas like a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun (anyone who gets that reference, email me, we should get married). Christmas is scared of us, that’s how fast we’re running at it. In amongst finding presents for loved ones and stuffing our gobs with roast turkey, we’ve got all this to deal with...
Perhaps most pressingly, tomorrow (Dec 8th) has us running the third of the shows we’re co-promoting with our friends at Xbox Reverb, with Esser, Magistrates and Egyptian Hip Hop playing a free gig at the Colchester Arts Centre in Essex. You lot have been involved in everything from picking the venue to designing t shirts for the event, and now all that’s left to do is sign up, turn up, and get down (in that precise order). We’ll seeya there.
Thursday (Dec 10th) sees the arrival of the first in our pair of Christmas shows when old friends The Rumble Strips (pictured above) descend upon our home of London’s Lexington for a show far more intimate than those they’re used to, but one with a bar room brawl kinda vibe that’ll suit their rootsy soul-punk just perfectly. Support comes courtesy of Internet Forever and the David Lynch-approved Thomas Truax, and if I were you, I’d get a ticket now. The second of these yuletide shindigs has just had a very special secret guest added to the bill for a rare all-acoustic set (they played a Rockfeedback club night earlier this year and have since gone on to huge things) – as if a line up of Peggy Sue, Tristram and Curly Hair playing on a freaking boat (the Tamesis Dock Barge in Vauxhall, London, no less) wasn’t exciting enough! That takes place on the 15th Dec and tickets for it are where? Here they are.
Fittingly given their appearance at Club Rockfeedback this week, The Rumble Strips also make their way on to Rockfeedback.TV this morning with this performance and interview captured at The Constitution during this year’s Camden Crawl festival. Proof that they’re particularly brilliant in cosy venues, if you needed any more persuasion to come down on Thursday, exists right here. We then jet off back in time and over the pond to Texas in 2008, where Saddle Creek’s alt-country giants Two Gallants treat us to an exclusive performance in some characteristically dusty alleyway for SXSW. Friday takes a turn for the Spanish as superstar DJ A-Trak wraps up a brilliant Primavera Sound 2009, and describes to us just what that feels like.
In between hand, you can expect the usual reviews and features on the site, to fall in love with our artists of the week Fruit Bats (whose UK tour we’re sponsoring), and to get angry and delighted in equal measure at our Albums of the Year countdown, which commences any second now.
To relax, a few of us will later head down to Minehead for a quiet weekend at the 10 Years of All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival celebrations. We’ll be trying to author the most comprehensive review of proceedings imaginable (Shellac playing twice in two days – YES!) in between doing our best to party ourselves to the very brink of destruction. I want to stare oblivion in the face, and vomit on it.
Tom.xxx