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Two really good shows the past few evenings...

Jenny Hoyston from Erase Errata has a solo project called Paradise Island. Shes over in Europe at the moment as she was playing at Ladyfest Madrid last week, and now starts on a UK tour.

She was playing two London shows, both at the Underbelly.

Sunday night was the first show, when she was headlining for Club Motherfucker. Two opening support acts were kinda lame i thought, tho not terrible, just not my thing. However when Jenny took to the stage, she was just incredible! The Paradise Island material i had heard before was quite lo-fi electronic experimentalism, basic drum machine and some strange vocals. In Erase Errata, with their crazed angular noise, Jenny's vocals were screams and whelps, and amazing for it..

So, when Jenny broke out into the most beautiful voice, and gorgeous guitar strumming, it was a total surprise, and a million miles from what i was expecting - mournful alt-country ballads and plaintive americana - wow, i thought it was genius! There were still a lot of good twisted electronic experimentalism, but i seriously thought the almost accessible interludes just added so much.

Last night monday, was another Upset The Rhythm show, with Jenny again, SPider And The Webs, and headlining were Partyline.

Spider and The Webs had a few good songs, a few bad ones, a few that sounded like The Pooh Sticks, and a few that sounded like The Rogers Sisters. If they had stuck to sounding like The Pooh Sticks, i woulda loved them!





Partyline.. uh, thats it, that was the most perfect power-pop-punk fun live set, possibly that i have seen this year! Three girls from Washington, DC, clad in thick rimmed glasses, over-the-top clothing, pom-poms, can-can kicks and power-riffage - fscking aceness!!

totally knackered today tho. Watched the last episode of Six Feet Under when i got home late last night, then was woken up by my cat, Velcro, wanting fed at 7am this morning. grrr!

Tonight Matt/randomNumber is playing again, starting off his tour with Quip and Hands And Fingers. Not too sure about how good the venue/club/organisation will be, but I'm sure we'll have a fun night! Oh, and Sarandon are playing at the Buffalo Bar too, so i might try and take Matt and friends along there when their set is finished.