Big Paddling Feet
Ooh, it’s all been a bit quiet on the Autumn Store surface recently, but like a duck I’ve been paddling away under the surface to get gigs organised. Um, I’m sorry to subject you to the duck simile too.
I was keeping April free for a Japanese band called Andersens, who had penciled in a tour of the UK, though it had to be postponed for now (hopefully I’ll get them on tour later this year, and hopefully with The Starlets too…). I did then try to organise something for My Sad Captains but finding a venue was a little tricky as loads of places already had bookings.
Sooo… let’s quickly forget about what I’ve not done and talk about what is coming up!
May 10th sees the long awaited Birmingham debut of The Deirdres who I’ve talked about before on this blog. They’re lovely, if you missed the post. There are seven Deirdres all adding their own little brand of shambly joy to their songs, all of which have beautiful pop hooks. One of the thinks I find amazing about The Deirdres is that although they’d not come across ‘indiepop‘ as a genre before promoters started booking them with ‘indiepop’ bands, but their songs really should be the examples of the genres definition on Wikipedia - it’s everything I love in music, the hand made T-shirts and CD covers, glorious melodies which you hum all day, getting over the little mistakes by laughing, excessive numbers of twee instuments on stage, and songs which actually go somewhere rather than just verse-chorus-versing at you.
They also play with Amida, who apperared on the Kids at The Club compilation and whos guitars and loose vocals will take you take you right back to the days of Orange Juice.
Both of these bands are playing at the increasingly legendary Indietracks line up, which is of course, reason enought to come down to the Sunflower Lounge on the 10th May.
Winston Echo completes the line up with his lovely songs.
Speaking of Indietracks, I’ve agreed to host a pre Indietracks gig on Tuesday the 22nd of July so that some bands who are over from other countries can play a few warm up gigs and do a little tour. The Smittens from the US are already confirmed and we’ll see what other nice suprises the Indietracks line up throws up.
And that’s been my recent frantic paddling! Quack.
