Green Mind Gigs 9th Birthday: Los Campesinos
Sunday 21st February 2010
Venue: The Junction 1
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Indie
Price Info: £9 adv
Time Info: 7 - 11
Advance tickets 01223 511511, www.wegottickets.com/greenmind
After 9 years, thousands of bands and lots of hangovers, Green Mind rolls on to year 9. This year we've got Los Campesinos to help us see it off right:
"Los Campesinos! are probably the first big UK indie band to have grown up not with the NME, Melody Maker, or even the fucking Fly. They sound like the first UK indie band who have grown up reading Pitchfork. What this means is, while that obviously makes them horrid, horrid people to hold a conversation about music with, they’re free from all of the negative influences that British indie is committed to bathing itself in over and over again. Hold On Now, Youngster is an album completely free of The Kinks. Completely free of The Clash. Completely free of Weller or Morrissey or Gallagher or fucking Suggs.
No, this is a band who have very foreign influences: Pavement, Deerhoof, Architecture In Helsinki. And they take all of those influences, remove any concept of subtlety those bands may have had, and plug up the gaps with glockenspiels played directly into the microphone. It works perfectly." Drownedinsound
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