DIRECTOR / CAMERA / SOUND - Nicholas Abbott
CAMERA - Thomas Hannan
PRODUCER - Kevin Molly
ASSISTANT PRODUCER / CAMERA - Dan Monsell
PRESENTER - Toby L
(02.12.09)
For many, LA noise-band Health have written one of the best records of 2009 in sophomore effort “Get Color”, and this live performance taken from a recent trip to London is a firm testament why. Health excellently combine shards of industrial noise, electronica and full frontal punk ‘n roll, and are one of the best and most exciting futuristic rock bands in existence today. In addition to filming a live set, we also found the time to catch up with the band about their new album, why finishing a record is like having a baby and losing year hearing because you play too goddamn loud.
Artists in this video: Health
(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.
(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.
(13.08.10)
Dressed in identical uniforms, sporting some oddly stylish corpse-paint style make up, covering the Beastie Boys, taking time off from playing guitar with Liars, barely looking us in the eye during interview and delivering some highly endearing, utterly confusing rock music at a Rockfeedback club night in London's Lexington, we didn't have Fol Chen figured out then, and we sure as hell don't now. Just the way we like it.
(12.08.10)
They look like a boy band who’ve been stuck in a lightless cave for three years with no sustenance aside from whiskey and cigarettes, and they sound like a boy band who have been stuck in a cave with Crosby, Stills and Nash playing on loop. Anthemic choruses, massive harmonies, and more hair than you can shake a brush at, Kassidy are going to be huge. We filmed them playing Club Rockfeedback and dragged the dry, articulate, Glaswegians outside for a chat.
(11.08.10)
Fiction are a young quartet with the intricacies of early Foals, mixed in with a dose of Adam And The Ants, Orange Juice and noughties electronica. Playing at a Club Rockfeedback night in trendier-than-thou Shoreditch, it’s still exciting early days for this band and a great symbol of how to keep it interesting for a new bunch of men brandishing guitars, drums, electronics and more in this big bad world today.
(10.08.10)
A band for whom waking up on someone's floor before getting into a van to drive to the next city is probably way more the norm than not, DD/MM/YYYY are an experimental indie band from Toronto, Canada. We caught the band live and had a chat with them in London on their first British trip, bringing their off-kilter musical exploration to Club Rockfeedback. Possessing a scattered map of influences from punk, hardcore and prog to synthed-up pop, comparisons seem most clear to Q and Not U, Fugazi and Don Cabellero, but the band are certainly doing their best to push out in their own brave new direction.
(09.08.10)
From Brighton, Cold Pumas make wonderfully repetitious krauty sounds that chug like drugged-out waves of goodness. Coming across like Ex-Models or Liars at their driving best, live they're a tightly wound hypnotic experience, with riffs that go on and on until something clicks and the rabbit hole opens. Catch ‘em playing a support slot for the incredible So So Modern at a Club Rockfeedback night.
(06.08.10)
Real Estate were born in the depths of one New Jersey summer when three old high school friends got together to play. But rather than being nostalgic for just their specific suburban nights, crushes, or favorite bands as teens-- they fashioned a tin can-and-string to memories more universal. We caught the boys playing a set to a packed out room at this years SXSW festival.