Times New Viking (8pm), No Age (8.45pm) and Los Campesinos! (9.45pm) in Whelan’s, tonight. Only a few tickets left for this so beware. I’m quite looking forward to it now. Times New Viking were pretty loud and quite humourous at Primavera, I’ve really warmed to No Age in the last while and despite Los Campesinos! first album not being something that I liked at all (AT ALL), their second album We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed released eight months after that debut is a doozy. A much less annoying (but still occasionally cringeworthy lyrically) affair. It was produced by John Goodmason who also produced the Fight Like Apes record. I keep thinking of them as a Broken Social Scene Junior these days.
Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
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The bands are blogging and uploading videos of the tour at http://shredyrface.com/
Watch Los Camp! are soundchecking the song on Wednesday after the jump.
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I missed No Age and most of Times New Viking, but Los Campesinos! were great. The vocals seemed a bit low in the mix for a while, but either that improved or I forgot about it during the mad band-jumping-into-the-crowd moments of the closing tracks. Then again, I love the first album. New material sounded good live, but I’ve yet to hear it properly.
Well, what did you think Niall? I flippin missed Times New Viking, was blown away by No Age and was left a little unmoved by Los Camp! Perhaps a case of too many cooks, i could barely hear the violin at all. I like them but I don’t think they moved on creatively since You! Me! Dancing!
“My Heaaaaaaad, nanananan nan nan my head.”
Times New Viking were great despite the early start. No Age were good but I expected them to be better. I don’t know, they seemed a little miffed with it all really. It was scarily loud for them too. The line up could have been reversed if you ask me! LC were a tad.. er… boring I thought!
I really enjoyed Los Campesinos. As I said, I think their second album is quite an improvement.
No Age didn’t do anything special for me at all. I didn’t see what was so good about it even though I like the album. My mind was wandering. It was loud but not shred yr face loud.
TNV suffered from an early slot more than anything else I think.
Theres a yoke in that clash magazine with the singer from las camp and Kevin Drew. Drew loves them, nice little interview.