Tue 19 Jun – Dean & Britta, Asobi Seksu, Exit Calm
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I have to admit that I have always found it very difficult to be critical about anything that Dean Wareham has done...I might, for example, comment on how The Days of Our Nights was Luna's worst album but in reality I listen to "Days..." pretty regularly and like it a lot. However I'm pretty certain that my inability to criticise is pretty much founded on the fact that there is very little that he has touched that is open to criticism. I thought it best to put this disclaimer front and centre as a warning that most of what follows is gushing sugary fan-boy praise and may be slightly lacking in any objectivity.
We arrived at the dingy and overly hot Metro while third on the bill act, who I guess were Exit Calm, were finishing of a set of lively, shoegazery noise that seemed good enough to make me think I should have got there 20 minutes earlier. …