What The Hell Is Going On? #32: Club Rockfeedback Week Pt. 4
By: Thomas Hannan
Hey.
Good Easter? I met two babies, and an owl. Go to Devon, it’s great.
It might have taken months of preparation, and only actually lasted fifteen minutes, but best bit of the long weekend was undoubtedly watching Rockfeeback TV’s special on The Pixies on Channel 4 on Friday night. The nice things people said about it (an email from Vaughan Oliver! Woo!) made us feel all aglow, and hopefully you’ll enjoy the next instalment too – a Rockfeedback Presents... special about Jarvis Cocker’s takeover of the Village Underground gallery in London’s East End last year. It features the former Pulp frontman presiding over burlesque classes, circus tricks, yoga sessions, improvisational Krautrock, poetry readings, and performing the erudite yet primal rock ‘n roll for which we continue to adore the guy. It airs on Channel 4 on Friday night (9th April) at 1.25am, before the final part in our mini-series, a piece on Graham Coxon, goes out on the 16th. But I’ll let you know all about that next week.
After what seems like an age (but is actually closer to a month), Rockfeedback’s back running gigs again as of Thursday, when Summer Camp, Babe Shadow and Spectrals play a show for us at The Lexington in London. People seem to be getting pretty excited about it, if advance sales are anything go by, which is lovely – but buy a ticket if you don’t want to miss out. Which a clever sort such as yourself probably doesn’t.
As it’s feels so bloody good to be back in the saddle on the live side of things, Rockfeedback.TV will this week dedicate itself to little films shot at said nights of ours, starting today with 22 piece all girl dubstep choir Gaggle performing a set in a church, shouting at their audience whilst dressed in all manner of dazzling jewels and robes. That’s here, and its brilliance kinda speaks for itself. A more conventional but nonetheless impressive turn is taken tomorrow (Wednesday) when we hark back to world conquerors The Temper Trap’s first ever London gig, a Rockfeedback club night no less, at The Lexington last year. Thursday brings with it a recent Hoxton Bar and Kitchen show played for us by one of our favourite Weezerish new bands of recent years, Surfer Blood, and if you’re lucky we’ll have something special for you on Friday as well, which you’ll never have heard of, but will love, if you’re a person of taste (which, as we’ve established, you are).
We’ve got a song called ‘Troublesome Houses’ from the new Bonnie Prince Billy album on currently. I’d like you to listen to it.
‘Til next week,
Tom.x