So after the gig me and a few friends embarked on a wander into Soho, its a great place at night always full of some "interesting" characters after being kicked out of 2 bars in less than an hour we walked to Piccadilly Circus and stared at the bright lights for a bit and caught up with a few friends so it was a good night.
A few days later I did one of my "Asylum Sessions" nights in my home town I had London singer/songwriter Anto Dust and also folk duo Lucky Clover come to play and they where amazing, I started off booking a couple of shows in London for Anto last year and she is writing some amazing songs, she preformed one of her new ones and its just one of those songs that you just listen to and get drew into it and by the end of it your sitting there and thinking fuck that was brilliant, I've asked her to record it and post it on her myspace so hopefully she does, and also check out Lucky Clover they have a great sound and were lovely people.
The week was spent booking up gigs for various bands as well and trying to sort out some nights for myself, as much as I love doing nights in my hometown I think they could be coming to an end, its far to hit and miss, problem is there isnt a uni so nothing seems to change and your audience is only ever going to be so big, but it does mean alot to me as I do know so many people around here and there's been some amazing nights, but name one thing that lasts forever?
Ok Friday night was another one of my nights this time it was headlined by London band Krakatoa, I listened to there myspace before i arranged the night and I liked what I heard, but when they came to play they was something else, it was just the way I like my music, played really fast and loud there is a track of there's called "Esprit De Corps" its brilliant it keeps building up and gets faster and faster then peaks then goes again, check it out, it sounds even better live and Darien the lead singer has a great stage presents. Anyway they was a great bunch of lads and i can see them going on to big things, make sure you go and watch them if there playing near you and your see what I mean.
So after a few hours sleep on up to London to the Queen of Hoxton for "No time for heros" night where they had Coco Sumner preforming and it was good to see her again, I watched first at a small show maybe 2 years ago now, i think it was at Jazz after dark in Soho, and she did a show with Peter Doherty and she was brilliant, and then I seen her again at the St Mortiz club.
I was a huge fan of her older work, tracks like "Bohemian Love" "No Smile" and "Never be" where great and its a shame that she don't preform them anymore, would have been good just leave one or two of them on her myspace to see what people thought of them because they was beautiful songs but things has changed and maybe she wanted to launch a new sound when she got signed? But for a show in which I had only heard a couple of the songs before I thought she was great and cant wait for the album.
So yeah that was my week, this week is just about sorting some a new night out in a different area all together, so keep you all posted on that one and listening to all the rumours that's building up for a certain gig at the end of the month.......
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