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Holding hands, feeding ducks

Tonight, I followed BeTh's advice and went to see The Brunettes, a New Zealand indie-pop band who were playing at the Rob Roy. They were pretty good, playing a sort of '60s-retro bubble-gum pop, and doing it very well. Lots of jangly guitars and bongos and xylophones and doo-wop/shoobie-doobie-doo vocals and handclaps and harmony vocals and vintage keyboards (they had a Nord Electro on stage), and playing very tightly. They sounded somewhere between Spearmint and Birdie, and with a definite Phil Spector influence too.

The Smallgoods were also good, in a power-pop sort of vein. I didn't hang around to see Architecture In Helsinki, though, having other things to do.

There are 1 comments on "Holding hands, feeding ducks":

Posted by: stephen clark
http://www.gitchi.net
Mon Jun 16 08:28:22 2003

You're right about The Brunettes - they were so great last night, I reckon I'll look out for them so I can see them again.

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