MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS + CUTTING PINK WITH KNIVES + LOVVERS
Barden’s Boudoir, NW16
27th September 2007, 09:00pm

Evidently there are people out there who want to ruin my new-found excitement about checking out bands; they’re called tube drivers and because of the Hammersmith line being closed I missed Lovvers play at Barden’s Boudoir. Seriously, their space profile actually gets me excittttted. They’re playing in about four hours at the Goldsmiths Student Union, and then on Sunday and on the 3rd and about seven other times between now and Christmas so I’ll have to go find them again. Twice!

Ever so thankfully the other bands entertained me in various degrees: Cutting Pink With Knives (photo below) cut searing riffs and a tendency to moan about everything with a synth with about twenty wires coming out of it which played tunes from Alex Kidd in Miracle World or something. They were pretty rusty and more amusing than actually amazing but apparently they thought they sucked as well. I know this because they kept telling the audience every thirty seconds. They play the NX Inn tomorrow night (29th Sept) although that’s meant to be secret. And with Antelope in November, which sounds delicious.

Meet Me In St. Louis (photo at t’top) headlined and sounded pretty sick. Post-hardcore + nice lyrics + a video camera for some reason - some sound problems = good set. Please to enjoy the split 7″ with Secondsmile on Big Scary Monsters; I’m not very sure how many copies they have left, but they’re playing in Kingston on Sunday, and they’re taking Lovvers with them, so go and listen and bring some notes with you. You should expect a proper review then - I’m a bit rushed because I’m half-getting ready for tonight’s DiS offering and wondering why Adium doesn’t work on this bloody network. Sigh.

I’ll be stepping up the entire ‘local-bands-give-me-things’ scenario in the next week or so. If you go to Goldsmiths keep yr eyes out. That and making a flickr pro account for all these cameraphone snaps I’ve been taking. You know, because there’s one or two per hundred that are actually good.

roman david