Mr Hudson & The Library

Absolutely ruddy brilliant!

My favourite album of the year, and live were all that I hoped they would be.

The venue was KOKO which is a great old-school theatre style place. Really suited to the scale and intimacy of the set.

A mashup of lounge jazz and hip-hop (with some steel-band thrown in the mix) what could be a self-concious mish-mash comes across as vital and pretty cool. Posh boy Ben Hudson has the charisma and musical chops to carry off his slightly magpie musical vision.

In his mind, Ben Hudson is Dre producing Bowie, but he’s more like Cole Porter remixed by Mike Skinner, or Chet Baker haunting the grooves of Sway. #

Stand out tracks: Upon the heath, On the streets where you live, Ask the DJ

Links: Official site

This entry was written by Chris, posted on October 19, 2007 at 9:25 pm, filed under Gig, Music and tagged mrhudson. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Maximo Park [11/10/07]

Geordie boys Maximo Park at the slopey floor of the Brixton Academy.

I’ve never really been much into the ‘Park. I suppose I always saw them as a me-too guitar band following in the footsteps of Snow Patrol, Muse etc..

I have to admit to being pleasantly surprised. They are a great live band with plenty of energy to carry off a reasonable catalogue of choons. In fact I’d say they are three really good numbers away from being a great live band.

One minor gripe: I love the Academy (a short-arse like me can always geta good view) but the sound was fucking appalling..

Stand out tracks: The coast is always changing, Velocity, Books from Boxes

This entry was written by Chris, posted on October 11, 2007 at 8:27 pm, filed under Gig, Music. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.