Cambridge festival The Secret Garden Party has announced the first batch of acts for 2009 including Jarvis Cocker, Emmy the Great, Slow Club, Peggy Sue and Still Flyin’.
Single: Mumford and Sons – The Cave and the Open Sea
Finger picking into existence like a well-crafted paragraph with a lolling acoustic guitar riff sculpted rather than played, Mumford & Sons’ “The Cave and the Open Sea” immediately announces itself as something to be savoured.
Live: Patti Plinko and her Boy @ Leicester Square Theatre
A portable record player sits atop a piano under a solitary spotlight, and from it emerges a dark and unholy voice, oom-pah-pahing whilst ‘the boy’, attired in boiler suit and gas mask, lurks in the shadows. Patti Plinko wouldn’t be out of place in an air raid shelter circa 1941, and the boy would be out of place anywhere. Together they put on a show that keeps the temporary inhabitants of this particular underground bunker in Leicester Square enthralled for the better part of an hour.
Jeff Lewis gets his own TV show via Guardian website
The news by Jeffrey Lewis: now won’t that be a sight for sore eyes? Jeff is recording a series of news videos for The Guardian online, which will include comic books, limericks, and collaborations with such folk-type sensations as Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn and Herman Dune.
EP Review: The Momeraths – Crayon Colours
EP ‘Crayon Colours’ is abloom with chiming harmonies, rambunctious pop melodies and witty storytelling. None of these songs pass the three minute mark, and their triple-distilled dayglo appeal offers some much-needed sunshine pep in these times of gloominess.
The Tim and Sam Band
We say: \\”Without a doubt, the seven songs on Put Your Slippers On, The Tim and Sam Band’s EP re-release (out on Full of Joy Records, April 13th), couldn’t be described as anything but beautiful. Layers of violins, gentle wind…