The Lovely Eggs, The School, MJ Hibbett set to play London’s Buffalo Bar on October 30
Pic 'n' Mixx
Confession, confession: this night is something of a Muso’s Guide offshoot. But hey ho, what better excuse than that to shout about it and tell you a little bit more?
Pic ‘n’ Mixx is launching at the Buffalo Bar on Upper Street, London (nearest tube: Highbury and Islington) on Friday 30 October at 8pm. There’re five bands playing and there’s DJing after all that’s done ’til 4am. There’ll be stuff like Heavenly, Pavement, The Smiths, Los Campesinos! to keep you on your toes.
And what’s more, you can win CDs made by Frightened Rabbit, Internet Forever, Lucky Soul, Amelia Fletcher, The Clientele, Pocketbooks, Xfm’s John Kennedy, Everett True, Luis from Elefant Records and a selection of other taste-making know-it-alls if you contribute one of your own on the way in.
They’ll know who you are if you don’t, we hear: if you’ve been lazy, you’ll be issued with a sadface stamp at the door. If you’ve been clever, you’ll get a happyface stamp on your hand.
You can buy tickets in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/59398 for a bargainous £5, saving yourself one precious pound on door-price.
And the bands, we believe, read a bit like this:
Married Lancashire couple David and Holly, a.k.a. The Lovely Eggs, headline the night. Everett True said this about them: “It’s like listening to The Vaselines being interpreted by The Bobby McGee’s interpreting Moldy Peaches while severely under the influence of snakebite. It’s like being exposed to five generations of art students pretending they’re still seven years old and that’s it’s still really amusing to say ‘poo’. It’s like a musical enema. It’s like hearing Richard Brautigan being interpreted by the web 2.0 generation whose only exposure to TV is Arctic Boosh and that stupid wee intro with the lo-res birds that used to introduce Big Brother.”
They describe themselves as “mainly influenced by the ecstasy of the modern mind and all its trappings, and also fans of The Velvet Underground, Red Crayola, Sonic Youth, Jonathan Richman, Bikini Kill, Pavement, Moldy Peaches, The Beach Boys, The Fall, Serge Gainsbourg, Can, Neu…”
Others say these lovely things:
“Unhinged in the best possible way” – Drowned in Sound
“Immensely fun addictive” – Hecklerspray
“eggxcellent” - Artrocker
Playing giddy indiepop and coming down all the way from Cardiff, The School were signed to legendary Spanish label Elefant Records after playing only 4 shows. They’ve been recording their debut album with Ian Catt (Saint Etienne/Stars/The Field Mice/Shampoo) and getting a fantastic reception along the way whenever they play.
They sound like bits of Belle & Sebastian, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Camera Obscura, Little My, The Beach Boys, Lucky Soul, The Beatles and 60s girl groups.
“a swaying, winsome tune with some of the Phil Spector lushness of Lucky Soul, the Belle & Sebastian-style modesty of Camera Obscura, and the airy, girl-group vocals of both” - Pitchfork
“On bubblegum pink vinyl, the sixties-saturated sound of The School is indiepop par excellence. ‘All I Wanna Do’ conjures up the aching hearts of Mary Weiss and the Ganser sisters as Liz Hunt’s little-girl-lost voice pours on the passion to describe an angelic innocent’s first big crush. ‘Valentine’ is like a pixie-booted Eurovision entry with a stomping piano-led tune that’s swept aloft by heavenly strings. Douze points pour Le Pays de Galles: c’est magnifique!” - SoundsXP
“The joint best Welsh pop band EVER” - Adam Walton, Radio Wales
MJ HIBBETT (solo set)
He reminds me of Half Man Half Biscuit, while others have said he’s “a middle aged man on a ukulele” and “a lot of fun, all geeky references and wry humour”. Super-current, super-sharp and massive fun all round, listen to snippet of genius ‘My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once’ before you die or lead a lesser life.
“It’s impossible not to raise a smile at the delightful absurdities and lyrical observations of indie-pop “poet laureate” Mark Hibbett” - Rock ‘n’ Reel
“MJ Hibbett has shown his work to occupy something between a memoir and a column — or a blog — of general observations, a product of his own upbringing, musical and otherwise, in a different time. It’s these kinds of tensions and observations that make Hibbett’s work more than just “indie pop” as such — if anything, it puts him in line with some of the best hip-hop MCs out there” - allmusic.com
Signed to the beautiful Fortuna POP! label, Grave Architects have “the offbeat humour of a Jonathan Richman, the kookiness of early Pavement, the tunefulness of Loaded era Velvets, yet very English and eccentric.” Wowzers.
“Folk-hop, like Eels doing Morrissey doing ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” – NME
“mixing multifaceted pace and style, tempo bending and fuck off guitars with audacious interactive rap” - Gigwise
The Peryls trade in a brand of creaky, sinister pop – dark, lyrical and enchanting. Drawn out from hiding by a need to share their curious findings with the outside world, the Peryls bring you tales of deranged doctors, dancing bears and doomed experiments…
“creaky, sinister pop…dark, lyrical and enchanting” – Evening Standard
“alt-folk at its folking best!” – SoundsXP
Did we really just copy and paste our own PR? Arguably, yes. See you there!
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