Last night we went to see Band of Skulls at the Roundhouse in Camden. Tracy had heard a couple of tracks on XFM and bought tickets as a joint anniversary present. To say that they are Southampton's answer to The White Stripes or The Raconteurs makes them sound a bit naff but they really are as good.
I wasn't looking forward to the journey across London to a venue we hadn't been to previously but although it took an hour it wasn't too bad. Journey quality is measured in slippage distance within my wheelchair seat. This was about two inches compared to the O2's six. It also helped that after ignoring the satnav's recommendation to go through Kingston's congestion, it actually took a sensible route all the way.
We arrived during the support band's set and Band of Skulls came on around 915. They only have 2 albums' worth of material so we knew it wasn't going to a long gig. They sounded great and although only a three piece band, didn't have to resort to backing tracks or session musicians to sound impressive. The boys enjoyed some of it but we find it frustrating that they aren't more enthusiastic about seeing bands live when they are playing themselves. Maybe taking them to Muse for their debut gig was a mistake!
They played until 1045 although we left before the encore to avoid the crowd. The journey back was going well until we discovered the link road between the westway and shepherds bush was closed. This gave the satnav the perfect opportunity to ignore a simple diversion in preference for a 15 minute tour of the local speed humped, residential roads.
A good night though and I reckon you might here more about this band in the future.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Sounds like it was well worth making the effort to get there. Yes, I think the boys were rather spoilt with their first gig! Anna P
Sounds interesting. Might you like these guys too? I did some playing with them a little while back:
http://www.thejoyformidable.com/
Hope you got your computer thing sorted- I asked Ian, but he said without the things in front of him there were too many variables to say anything conclusive.
Love Emma
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