Date
Friday 2 November 2007
Location
Whitechapel Gallery
80-82 Whitechapel High Street,
London,
E1 7QX,
United Kingdom
Link
Description
The Bobby McGees are a band often described as twee, championing the twee-as-fuck ukulele brandishing. Beneath their harlequin painted faces and a sugar coated exterior lies a dark edge that is a beautifully touching and intelligent balance between overly sweet and barbed witticisms. They will fool any listener into thinking this is the feyest bunch they’ve ever heard.
Laurence Collyer, The Diamond Family Archive, was the songwriter for Brighton-based band Chimp receiving praise and airplay from the likes of John Peel, Steve Lamaq and XFM. Laurence found himself recording a collection of songs in a greenhouse on the very remote west coast of Ireland which formed the basis of The Diamond Family Archive. His songs are personal, sometimes painful tales of love lost and life's laments.
Jane Bartholomew’s voice shimmers a gentle tranquil peace like a dam letting out a steady trickle of water. When you listen to her songs you can just sit happily on the lake in your boat and dream off into her gentle voice, intermingling with the plucking of guitar strings, piano, violin, glockenspiel and cello the music melts around you creating the atmosphere of innocent country summer mornings.
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