DIRECTOR / CAMERA / EDIT / SOUND - Nicholas Abbott
PRODUCER - Kevin Molloy
PRESENTER - Toby L
CAMERA - Thomas Hannan
CAMERA - Simon Lane
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION - Daniel Monsell
CAMERA - Sebastian Cort
CAMERA - Sol Archer
(02.09.10)
English four-piece indie pop band Good Shoes deliver jerking beats, nail-shredding guitar and assertive rhythms. Their punchy new wave vibe is perfectly suited to the fine afternoon sunshine of Victoria Park at the legendary Underage Festival. We even have time for a quick chin wag as well.
Artists in this video: Good Shoes
(02.09.10)
English four-piece indie pop band Good Shoes deliver jerking beats, nail-shredding guitar and assertive rhythms. Their punchy new wave vibe is perfectly suited to the fine afternoon sunshine of Victoria Park at the legendary Underage Festival. We even have time for a quick chin wag as well.
(01.09.10)
Live set from this Joy Division meets 'Bossanova'-era Pixies as fronted by a huge lurching male Grace Jones, otherwise known as O.Children. One of the most compelling and eloquent bands we've interviewed at Rockfeedback club nights this year, and achingly cool to boot.
(31.08.10)
In 2009, Rockfeedback were invited to take part in documenting the work of London-based rock band (of sorts), Hyrst. An entire set was filmed live and in one take at Cholmeley Boys Club in Dalston, marking the first time the band had committed anything to record. The result is a piece that is as strange as it is serene – often both, concurrently.
(27.08.10)
"HEY MAMA, I WANT TO GO SURFING!". If you haven't heard that line yet, then you probably should as it comes from The Drums infectious as heck early-Cure-gone-west-coast tracks ‘Let’s Go Surfing’. These fellows write perfect little dark sunshine pop songs influenced by the likes of Joy Division (obvs), Jonathan Richman, Echo and the Bunnymen etc. We filmed them at the Old Blue Last with Morrissey jostling our left elbow and Orlando from The Maccabees doing all he could to ruin the lighting system. Grand.
(25.08.10)
Playing to a gaggle of underage, overexcited fans, Mystery Jets treated us to a set that was the dictionary definition of melodic and songwriting excellence at Underage Festival 2009. Once backstage we chat about the very nature of songwriting itself, and their recent inside-out approach to record making, under a pseudonym in Berlin.
(23.08.10)
Rockfeedback will never get bored of talking to rappers in ridiculously plush tour busses backstage at huge festivals. Especially when they're as entertaining and eloquent as young Dylan Mills, aka Dizzee Rascal, captured here at the Underage Festival in 2008 in the very week he went supernova. He discusses with us his new status as a genuine chart-botherer, and brings the ruckus in a characteristically virulent live set.
(18.08.10)
"The new Jean Genie" isn't a term to be bandied about willy nilly, but Beth Jeans Houghton and her stunning array of camp, theatrical costumes would definitely have Ziggy-era Bowie ripping his tights in jealousy. We caught her playing her heartfelt folk-ish cabaret at the lovely End of The Road festival last year.
(17.08.10)
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, or Colin Macleod as his mother knows him stopped by our club night at The Old Queens Head in North London to play a set of heartstrung folk songs. With half a foot in the isolation of his home in Scotland and another in the city, we cornered the man on a fire escape to ask him how this split affects his life and his music.
(04.08.10)
They never rehearse, they record albums by accident, they forget how their songs go with alarming regularity. And yet it's precisely such humbling qualities as these (coupled admittedly with some truly excellent songwriting) that make us love The Wave Pictures as much as we do. After donning the wooly hats and gloves necessary to cope with the unseasonably cold day we met them on, the trio played us a few songs and an interview on the porch of the Austin Folk House at the 2010 SXSW Conference in Texas.
(02.08.10)
Initially granted fame after Kurt Cobain was seen wearing a t-shirt with the cover art from his album Hi, How Are You? (Johnston was in a mental hospital at the time), and held there precariously by a prolific stretch of recordings that are everything from rickety to pure genius. In this short documentary we follow him at this years SXSW festival, from an affecting on location performance and interview, to a surprise guest performance with The Hymns, an acoustic performance to an adoring crowd at Emos. Oh, and in INCREDIBLE cover song also.
(20.07.10)
Wonderfully tortured creative souls seem to pop-up in the world of folk all the time, but this hauntingly beautiful on-location performance of an unreleased song from Fionn Regan backstage at Field Day festival still makes the hairs on our neck stand up at its very thought. Regan is a fantastically interesting and compelling artist, this exclusive track like this still ranks up there with some of our favourite on location sessions Rockfeedback cameras have been lucky enough to shoot.
(12.07.10)
"It's a simple concept really. you get a lot of folk music, and i mean a lot, you get a pretty massive tourist attraction on the South Bank -the London Eye - and you basically get everyone together and one by one get in a pod, I think thats what they're called, and go round looking at London, playing some songs and having a bit of a chat" (Toby L). So thats what we did. More specifically our good friends at Bella Union asked us to help showcase some of their acts,Ohbijou, The Acorn, My Latest Novel and The Low Anthem.
(26.08.10)
Adored by music-critic-behemoth Pitchfork and with an ever-growing, dangerously passionate fanbase, Los Campesions! have been bubbling like a slowly heated kettle for some years now, but with the release of their second (brilliantly titled) second album 'Romance Is Boring', they are about to poetically drop-kick their way into the big time. We packed the seven noisy chaps/chapesses into our offices to film what turned out to be a mind-bendingly gorgeous session.
(24.08.10)
A privilege it was to have spent a particularly gorgeous afternoon in the presence of Marcus Mumford and his sons recently, as they performed for us the fourth of our Rockfeedback Sessions in the space below our London office. Further to four spellbinding versions of tracks from their debut album ‘Sigh No More’, the band reveal themselves to be wise beyond their young years in a frank and revealing interview, discussing life as a ‘new’ band, the wait to finally make their debut LP, and their place in the folk scene, indeed, if such a thing exists.
(16.07.10)
For the first of our Rockfeedback Sessions - a new series of special exclusive performances for Rockfeedback, we invited Fleet Foxes' J.Tillman and his own band for a incredibly memorable afternoon of wonderful harmony-drenched Americana. Fuelled by enough bottles of spirits to kill many a horse, we also had a chance to speak to the band after they played.
(14.07.10)
The first time we met Lone Wolf man Paul Marshall he was propping up the bar in support of his fellow Leed-sters Pulled Apart By Horses. At the time it seemed impossible that this chirpy chap talking about naked parachute jumping was the auteur of darker-than-dark Vultures. So we dragged the contradictory man for a rockfeedback session to find out just what he thinks he's doing.
(26.05.10)
Part two of Rockfeedback’s End of the Road special has us back in the thick of the Dorset countryside, documenting the sights and sounds of Bob Lind performing with Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley, a headline set from Fleet Foxes, Brakes, Vetiver, Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele, J. Tillman, Herman Dune, Iain Archer, Loney Dear, Quack Quack, William Elliot Whitmore, The Travelling Band, Laura Gibson and blues legend T-Model Ford, who is the only convicted murderer Rockfeedback have ever interviewed. Thus far.
(24.05.10)
End of the Road is unique. It has its own ale. Peacocks roam the grounds. A man dressed in an all in one gold jumpsuit and space helmet can play blues guitar to an enraptured crowd of thousands. And this is only Part 1.
The Hold Steady // Mumford and Sons // The Low Anthem // Archie Bronson Outfit // Alela Diane // Wildbirds and Peacedrums // Darren Hayman // Okkervil River // Bob Log III // The Dodos // Zun Zun Egui // The Acorn and Motel Motel."
(19.05.10)
The inaugural Concrete and Glass event featured performances from the likes of dirty-city pop act Micachu, a dark, heavily visual TV on the Radio gig, and an early, exciting performance from Little Boots. This sits alongside some of the most innovative and engaging displays of visual and sonic art, all in Shoreditch, East London, an area where the underside of the city meets the shiny, veneered, capitalised City. If this excites you, head down to the new East London line and check it out, it's on all this week.
TV on the Radio // Bass Clef // Ludovico Einaudi // Errors // Holy Ghost Revival // Kid Harpoon // Little Boots // Micachu // The Oscillation // Kimmo Pohjonen // James Yuill
(17.05.10)
Criss-crossing the world of visual arts and audio performance while straddling the arch experimentalism of modern creativity, East London's 2008 Concrete and Glass festival was one of the most exciting and innovative crossover events of recent years. The festival is celebrating it's sophomore year, THIS WEEK so we thought we' show you a few moving images we captured at the last. If you like this, we suggest you head on down and see it all with your own peepers.
Vladislav Delay // The Big Pink // Cibelle // Flashguns // O'Death // Owl Project // Pens // Sweet Baboo // Teeth of the Sea // Threatmantics // Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs // TV on the Radio
(26.01.10)
More New Wave than Nu Rave, danceable futuristic popsters We Have Band cram enough Hot Chip beeps, Talking Head yelps and Rapture-esque disco-funk-pop to get your insides scratching like a sick dog. The ensuing cocktail is a frantic, itchy, delightful mess. Catch them at HMV's Next Big Thing Festival.
(24.01.10)
Brit-winning, chart-bothering, BBC-'sound of 2010'-winning hotly tipped electro-folk songstress Ellie Goulding is already well on her way to being a household name. She played at HMV's Next Big Thing while teetering on the edge of great things.
(24.01.10)
With influences ranging from Arcade Fire to Radiohead, this band deliver an epic sound... with a set that will be the bedrock of what promises to be an astonishing debut album. HMV's Next Big Thing? Certainly.
(04.03.00)
American rock inspired, r'n'b tinged synth-popper Erik Hassle is definitely one to watch in the coming months, writing guitar-edged catchy pop-songs sure to be tickling at the heels of Radio 1 playlists. See him play a sweaty set at HMV's Next Big Thing Festival. Go on. I dare you.
(24.06.10)
Part two of our Real Talk discussion with Crowded House’s Neil Finn sees the man Flight of the Conchords once referred to as “the white Bob Marley of Wellington” discussing the age old battle between major and indie labels, youth, and the mysterious character known as ‘The Intriguer’. He also uses the word “wankers”, making this so totally NSFW.
(22.06.10)
As the impetus behind Split Enz, Crowded House and Seven Worlds Collide, Neil Finn has been part of some of the most commercially and artistically successful music of the past few decades. In part one of our in-depth interview, he discusses new Crowded House LP 'The Intriguer', the importance of family, and the state of the music scene in his native New Zealand.
(20.06.10)
Part two of our in-depth interview with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh has the synth-punk pioneer discussing the continued relevance of his band, music television, de-evolution (naturally), and how he once debated poetry with a hospital-bound would-be presidential assassin.
(19.06.10)
In the latest in Rockfeedback’s unique, bizarre and brilliant (if we do say so ourselves) Real Talk series of interviews,Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo discusses his band’s first album in 20 years, the demise of record labels, what it is to ‘get’ Devo, and bouncing around in a playpen with Neil Young.
(23.07.10)
Anna Calvi performing 'No More Words' for a Club Rockfeedback audience at the Hoxton Bar and Kithcen, London, on Thursday the 25th of February 2010.
(21.07.10)
Anna Calvi performing 'Blackout' for a Club Rockfeedback audience at the Hoxton Bar and Kithcen, London, on Thursday the 25th of February 2010.
(19.07.10)
Anna Calvi performing 'I'll Be Your Man' for a Club Rockfeedback audience at the Hoxton Bar and Kithcen, London, on Thursday the 25th of February 2010.
(10.06.10)
24 year old Londoner Alan Pownall writes careworn, pop-flavoured, vaudevillian folk with touches of Ed Harcourt and the Divine Comedy. He's on the same label as Noah and the Whale, and this track Colourful day is a perfectly sombre summation of his influences.