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Black coffee, followed by a heaped tablespoon of raisins, followed by a load of seedless green grapes, followed by a glass of orange juice - all consumed in quick succession - makes your mouth-insides taste like garlic.
Fact.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Thursday 8 October 2009
Cochlea-scything; Coffee in the Midlands; and Who’s Supporting Noisettes?
As mentioned in today’s column, the organisers of Father Christmas time have come up trumps by booking Noisettes to switch on the Christmas lights in Barnstaple this year.
It’s an improvement of seismic proportions to The Saturdays, who fake-tanned and plastic-nailed their way through a cochlea-scything set last year, and Joss Stone the year before – an artist who I found bearable before the Devon lass returned from the US sporting a curious and quite cringeworthy American accent coupled with massive delusions of grandeur.
So, who else will appear on stage with Noisettes on November 22nd?
Topping the troupe of support acts while simultaneously scraping the bottom of the pop barrel are Dolly Rockers, a female pop trio who sound like excruciatingly annoying four year old girls who have been force fed a diet of Lily Allen while being wrongly assured that the world cares about such insightful vignettes into their personal lives as “you just want to drink coffee, I just want to drink tea/So why don’t you come and meet me in the Midlands?/At the motorway service station”.
Expect them to be on stage just before Noisettes, assuming there’s not a murder backstage.
Confirmed local acts include The Breaks Collective, Jenna Witts, Jaden Cornelius, and the North Devon Community Gospel Choir. Regardless of their abilities ‘North Devon’ and ‘Gospel Choir’ are two pairs of words that somehow don’t quite fit together.
I have but one question. Where are all the local contemporary indie bands? There are a diverse selection of talented acts to choose from that could’ve done a fine job, providing a more cohesive support line-up for one of the most successful UK indie artists of 2009.
And that is by no means a slight at the local acts appearing, each of whom have their unquestionable talents, particularly The Breaks Collective. It just seems that the thriving indie scene of this region is a little under-represented.
Thoughts anyone?
It’s an improvement of seismic proportions to The Saturdays, who fake-tanned and plastic-nailed their way through a cochlea-scything set last year, and Joss Stone the year before – an artist who I found bearable before the Devon lass returned from the US sporting a curious and quite cringeworthy American accent coupled with massive delusions of grandeur.
So, who else will appear on stage with Noisettes on November 22nd?
Topping the troupe of support acts while simultaneously scraping the bottom of the pop barrel are Dolly Rockers, a female pop trio who sound like excruciatingly annoying four year old girls who have been force fed a diet of Lily Allen while being wrongly assured that the world cares about such insightful vignettes into their personal lives as “you just want to drink coffee, I just want to drink tea/So why don’t you come and meet me in the Midlands?/At the motorway service station”.
Expect them to be on stage just before Noisettes, assuming there’s not a murder backstage.
Confirmed local acts include The Breaks Collective, Jenna Witts, Jaden Cornelius, and the North Devon Community Gospel Choir. Regardless of their abilities ‘North Devon’ and ‘Gospel Choir’ are two pairs of words that somehow don’t quite fit together.
I have but one question. Where are all the local contemporary indie bands? There are a diverse selection of talented acts to choose from that could’ve done a fine job, providing a more cohesive support line-up for one of the most successful UK indie artists of 2009.
And that is by no means a slight at the local acts appearing, each of whom have their unquestionable talents, particularly The Breaks Collective. It just seems that the thriving indie scene of this region is a little under-represented.
Thoughts anyone?
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