thedogspollocks » Spring & Airbrake

Greg Dulli, Ed Harcourt

thedogspollocks — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:00:17 +0000

This gig was fairly last minute (one week), encouraged to go by the addition of Ed Harcourt to the bill and the likely hood that Julie would be up for it considering that very fact.

Ed Harcourt has a class voice, despite the revelation that he had been suffering from food poisoning all day. He did seem to be sweating excessively. It was all a very pleasant performance, with a cracking finale, in a old rusty sounding song, that i cant really describe as well as i would like. Antique-y.

I only know Greg Dulli (or as Jud calls him, Greg Dully) from The Gutter Twins and vaguely from The Twilight Singers, there seamed like there was a lot more hardcore fans the place who knew all his stuff. The songs are generally good and he/they made a good noise. However i don’t think the lyrics were always the best and some songs did leave me a little cold. But like i say, generally good. More good than bad.

Wolf Parade

thedogspollocks — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:00:14 +0000

Made it, only just… combination of delayed flights, slow buses and a brisk jog through torrential rain in Belfast got me to the Spring and Airbrake just in time for the last couple of songs by the support act (Ed Zealous). The venue is almost as empty as it was last year when Sunset Rubdown came to play.

The band are quality, and they actually rock.. hard.

Kele Okereke

thedogspollocks — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:28:42 +0000

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This was pretty good, tho i cant say the songs were massively memorable, except for one that sounded like it was lifted straight off one of the Wipeout soundtracks.

Seems like a nice enough guy, even if he didn’t do requests.

Sunset Rubdown

thedogspollocks — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:00:36 +0000

I think familiarity with the songs helped. Loud drunk woman stopping the show was actually more funny than annoying. Small crowd.. so far bit of band banter/monologues… weird dreams about Drew Barrymore.

Explosions in the Sky

thedogspollocks — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:43:14 +0000

…also.. noticed this story .. possibly the most elaborate marketing campaign ever?!

Devotchka

thedogspollocks — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:00:04 +0000

Surprised the tickets for this actually made it to me, it took at least 5 goes to pronounce and spell.. and spell again to the ticketmaster phone operator. Anyway.. fantastic gig.. a eclectic collection of instruments and collection of songs and covers that just made me feel happy. Velvet Underground and Siouxie and the Banshees never sounded so good. More Please.