Week Commencing: 6/9/04
Morning,
The autumn is looking good. At last glance, we have new albums due from:
- Interpol (our present Band of the Week - look out for a feature on them shortly, in addition to a live-review of their intimate London comeback at the Scala next week...);
- The Thrills;
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds;
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion;
- the final record from Elliot Smith;
- and newer scamps such as Winnebago Deal making their debut shout.
For rockfeedback, it's exciting and exhausting in equal measure - we'll struggle in earnest to bring you coverage of every essential release you need to investigate, as well as the exertions that aren't perhaps quite as life-affirming. Sheesh.
September also marks rockfeedback's fourth anniversary. We're not making a huge hoo-har, as we have special events planned to round off 2004; you'll soon see. Thanks for spending time with us for so long. We still haven't even started.
But October's second anniversary of our flagship Basement Club will see a very special night at our resident venue of the Buffalo Bar on Thursday 28th, and a one-off Basement Club Vs Queens Of Noize promotion at Camden's Barfly @ Monarch on Friday 29th October. Look out for line-up info shortly at The Basement's official page here. (Also - we can now xclusivly announce September 23rd's Basement headliners: the top-30, twenty-something rock-machines 22-20s, plus guests/DJs; more info to follow later this week - should be special.)
Now, the usual features; apologies - but your answers to last week's 'The Issue' will be published next week: we're still collating the responses.
Gigs this week, London: Death From Above 1979 are at the Barfly on Tuesday (7th Sept; £6:00) and Friday (10th - at the new, enticing 'Adventures Close To Home' night, which also features Carlos D of the aforementioned Interpol DJ-ing; £8:00); The Detroit Cobras are at the ULU (Weds 8th; sold out); Elefant of NYC return to the Metro on Thursday (9th; £6:00); Kasabian perform a massively oversubscribed show at the Scala (Thurs 9th; sold out); The Mooney Suzuki fly over for a one-off at the Garage (Thurs 9th; sold out); Soundtrack Of Our Lives perform a low-key set at 93 Feet East on Tuesday (7th; sold out); The Departure are at Metro (Weds 8th; sold out); and - our pick of the week: go check out some sterling new acts, courtesy of hotnewbands.co.uk, at the Archway Tavern, inclusive of 10,000 Things, 1906, Polar Remote and Hot Club De Paris, plus DJs. It's only £5 - for tickets, email muzz@hotnewbands.co.uk.
UK Chart-action, this week: Embrace return from obscurity to the top-ten (#7) with the Chris Martin-written 'Gravity'; the man P Weller scrapes 11 with his version of 'Wishing On A Star'; The Killers' overblown, fantastical 'All These Things That I've Done' is 18; The Prodigy's 'Girls' is 19; The Thrills' awesome 'Whatever Happened To Corey Haim?' is a disappointing 22 (deserved of so much more...); while Ed Harcourt misses on the top-40 by one measly spot ('This One's For You'); Easyworld are 50 with 'How Did It Come To This?'; The Open and 'Elevation' reside at 54; The Black Keys' 'Automatic' takes 66; and albums-news? The Libertines settle for number-one with their second, eponymous album; and Bjork is 9 with her majestic 'Medulla'.
See you in 7-ish days.