Toby L - Presenter
Nicholas Abbott - Camera Operator, Sound, Edit, Director
Thomas Hannan - Camera Operator
Sol Archer - Camera Operator
Kenny Cavey - Camera Operator
Kevin Molloy - Camera Operator
(15.09.09)
Lightning Bolt have done a lot of strange things in their time, but weirdly enough, playing on an actual stage as opposed to the floor of some sweaty club is one of the most surprising decisions of their career. Filmed at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, this is the first of such gigs, and in an interview with Rockfeedback TV they discuss at length why the decision was taken, as well as detailing the songs they perform from their highly anticipated fifth LP. Though they might play on stages like the rest of 'em these days, it dwells their impact not one iota - Lightning Bolt prove here they're still miles ahead of their contemporaries.
Artists in this video: Lightning Bolt
(15.03.10)
SXSW is quite probably the only festival in the world where you can have the editor of the NME and head of MTV grunting breathlessly in your ear while a bunch of mental noiseniks from New Zealand scream at a dog in the car park of a Texan Barber Shop. We grab said noiseniks (who have one of the best-bad band names this side Reef - Die! Die! Die!) after performance for a chat about dogs, audience participation, the music scene in New Zealand and being the next Oasis. Cough.
(04.03.10)
Originally from Leeds and now living it up in London, this dance-punk, new wave 5 piece band mix big, dark beats, drum’n’bass synths and ripped speaker guitars delivered faster and harder than a FedEx order of paving slabs. A perfect musical backdrop for Victoria Park’s 2009 Underage festival.
(23.02.10)
Art-rock, post hardcore influenced New York band Les Savy Fav are probably one of the most underrated live bands doing the rounds right now. Fact. Shameless, shirtless frontman Tim Harrington stalks the stage, looking and acting like Iggy Pop after a heavy decade on the carbs while the rest of the band bluster out a distorted, melodic mess of angular bass and bum-rush guitars. We have a little natter with the band backstage at Victoria Park's Field Day festival, in 2008.
(19.02.10)
The bastard child of Bob Dylan and David Lynch, Jeffrey Lewis writes surrealist stories about creeping animated brains, the beginning of the Soviet Union and being banned from The Roxy (though to be fair, that's a Crass cover), accompanies them with illustrations and somehow manages to be one of the most un-pretentious artists that we’ve ever met. Catch this fellow's unquantifiable performance at the eponymous industry love-in, SXSW in 2008.
(17.02.10)
Here joined by his large “ensemble”, Dan Deacon is nothing short of a wonder to behold at his live shows. This festival highlight at Spain’s Primavera is a clear testament why - getting into the crowd and embracing the crowd as a crucial point of the joyous, uplifting electronica he produces. After we found a brief second to try and wipe the smiles off our faces from watching his set, we quickly put them right back on as we chatted to a charming Mr. Deacon about the pleasures of performing and ensuring that his gear doesn't get broken during gigs.
(15.02.10)
The Futureheads don’t play places as cosy as London’s Lexington often, meaning that when they do, it’s even more of a treat – this one off show was in the calendar to showcase to the most in-the-know fans some tracks from a forthcoming, fourth LP that promises some pretty exciting things. After the show, we grab Barry and Ross from the band for a stairway chat about Oliver Reed, Elton John, George Michael and Johan Sebastian Bach.
(12.02.10)
Lead by the beguiling Sian Ahern (nobody’s quite sure who ‘Alice’ is), the Sian Alice Group make brooding, unnerving and spooky rock and roll in which to get completely lost – exactly what this audience at this Rockfeedback club night found themselves doing, whether intentionally or not, when they played for us in May of 2009. The band discuss the night’s performance and music in general with Michael Lewin afterwards.
(10.02.10)
Playing a set of deranged, noisy rock, London-based drums and guitar duo Friendship appear here at a Rockfeedback club night. Mashing chirpy guitar lines with frenetic beats, distorted chords and Gregorian monks chanting through the mouths of dying robots (one of these descriptions is not true), the band play a beatifically bewildering show to a crowd of willing punters, and chat us through the nature of their work in a post-gig interview.
(08.02.10)
Fed-up of being asked to define his mid-90’s sunshine hip-hop influenced grooves, Sargent Garcia (or Sargento Garcia as he’s known across Latin America) dropped a colloquial language bomb, choosing to grandiosely title it “Salsa-muffin”. Confused? You need not be. Just sit back, and relax to some grin-inducing Hispanic Hip-Hop, filmed at InMusic festival. In Croatia of all places.
(08.02.10)
First Aid Kit are Klara and Johanna Söderberg, a duo of sisters from Sweden. They perform on stage at a Rockfeedback club night at The Lexington, performing songs from their 5/5 RFB-rated debut album, and a Fleet Foxes cover.
(03.02.10)
A strong part of a New York scene that exploded in 2009, bringing us the likes of Crystal Stilts, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Woods and many more, Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls have been bringing their new wave no-fi garage rock assault globally to a fast-increasing fanbase. Here we catch them live at a sunshine-filled Primavera Sound festival in Spain, and grab 'em after as they reveal themselves as pure fan-girls, delighted to be sharing a bill with so many of their musical heroes and friends.
(01.02.10)
Talking about, amongst other things, how Rockfeedback were the direct reason they decided to play at Field Day 2009 (receive no wrong impressions – we're pretty proud about that fact!), Mogwai perform a bewildering, stunning set to Victoria Park, and chat to us in a tipi backstage. Yes, we felt pretty blissed out throughout...