The latest Lost Music Presents night saw a part of London's Pentoville Road become a mini Cymru for the night!Little My are an Anglo-Welsh nine piece, drawing their members from a range of Cardiff & Bristol bands. They just about managed to fit on the small stage at London's Clockwork. The band, who for some reason were all wearing animals ears, had problems with the sound that plagued their set throughout but this didn't stop them making an impression, gimmicky ears or not!
This was their first appearance in London and they were in town to promote their new single on the Wee Pop label. The band , who were joined from Liz from The School on backing vocals, played short and sweet indie pop tunes which put smiles on the audience faces. They draw their influences from a range of bands and this is reflected on their new EP which consists entirely of covers. Like most indie pop bands I have a preference for when the female vocalist takes over and songs like Sellotape My Hands are still imprinted in my head the morning after! Hopefully they will come back to London soon.
I admit with the sound problems I feared for The Pocketbooks based on some of their previous live appearances I have caught. However those fears were soon proved wrong as the sound problems cleared and they put in their possibly best performance to date. The practice and experience from their continuous live performances is paying off at last.Andy Pocketbooks has always seemed to be nervous live but now he, and the rest of the band, are much more confident and this has meant his vocals are much stronger than before. More interestingly it seems that Emma is now the dominant force in the boy/girl vocal department and this could possibly be one reason why the band seems to sound assertive tonight especially on recent single Cross The Line which sounded like it should have done on the vinyl version. They even got an rapturous encore request but like all the good bands they didn't play one. Excellent!
Cardiff's The School have recently signed a two album deal with the Spanish label Elefant Records so they may not be playing venues of this size for much longer.The School play a lovely blend of girl group inspired and indie pop music. I have previously described them as Camera Obscura produced by Phil Spector. Like Little My earlier in the evening they use the glockenspiel to great effect bringing a delicate beauty to their songs such as Valentine and All I Wanna Do. More smiles throughout and worth getting detention for!
I didn't catch that much of the headliners Radio Luxembourgs set hence the lack of a review. Of the two songs I did catch I think this North Welsh band want to cross the border to Liverpool such is their similarity to bands such as Hot Club De Paris and The Wombats albeit with a more rockier sound.
An excellent night with a lovely feel good atmosphere. Let's hope it's carried over to this weekends indie tracks festival.
[Little My on My Space]
[Pocketbooks on My Space]
[The School On My Space]
[Radio Luxembourg on My Space]
[Lost Music Presents on My Space]
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