What the hell is going on? #26: Rockfeedback’s World Tour Pt. 10
By: Thomas Hannan
Hello hello hello.
I’m Tom. Who are you? Whoever you are, welcome to part 10 (ten!) of Rockfeedback TV’s World Tour, in which we try to film every band who are playing anywhere in the world, and damn near succeed. This week, we’re in London, Barcelona and Texas, starting off today in our capital with a right Betty Swollock of a gig with The Futureheads (pictured above) at The Lexington – they debut new songs, dust off old ones and discuss everyone from George Michael and Oliver Reed to Elton John and Johan Sebastian Bach with our esteemed Toby L. Watch it, it’s really good. On Wednesday, it’s one man mentalist Dan Deacon’s turn to thrill with a set recorded at the 2009 Primavera Sound festival in Spain, before Friday comes and with it a set from Jeffrey Lewis at SXSW in Austin, in which he treats us to a delightful illustrated history of Communism (which makes it sound like not actually that bad an idea...). Nice lad.
Elsewhere, we’re gearing up for not one but two Rockfeedback shows next week – one a single launch in a church for 22 piece all girl dubstep choir Gaggle, the other a folk night we’re calling ‘Over The Green Hills’ with Kassidy, Anna Calvi, Lulu & The Lampshades and Andrew Davie. Most of the Rockfeedback team will be there partying hard, but I’m afraid I’ll be in New York – speaking of partying hard though, I’ll be meeting Andrew WK for a follow up chat about all the chaos that we inadvertently sprung up toward the end of ’09. Should be an interesting one – results on the site soon as I’m back.
Coconut, the new album from our band of the week Archie Bronson Outfit, is currently on the stereo, and sounding immense – even the song that’s essentially a stoner version of ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ by Deep Blue Something. Yet I still think Teen Dream is probably my favourite record of this admittedly very young year so far, so I’m delighted we’re going to be filming those what made it, Beach House, when they play at the ever so plush Bush Hall in west London on Wednesday night. I’ll be asking them a few questions on behalf of RFB.TV, including “other than yourselves, what’s the best thing to come out of Baltimore – The Wire or Animal Collective?”, or maybe just that “what comes first, the music or the words?” classic. Never fails, that one.
Tom.x