Bon soir! Three days into the Tour de France, with two fizzy shows in the heart of Champagne country: Thursday night in Reims to a packed out Apart Café, a rowdy crowd were blown away & a bowl of fruit punch was put away. Massive thanks to Hausen from Krautrockers Bad Punchline for filling in splendidly on drums.

Friday saw the welcome welcome return of Harvey fresh from a flight from the dark pits of Sheffield: the show was in an old Air Raid shelter-cum-goth club in the grubby streets of Metz; another electric performance with calamity galore and 100 ears left gleefully ringing.


Got back into bed this morn at 7 fresh (?) for a safe (?!) journey to St. Quentin for tonights show at the 97 Blues Bar.
Hope you can make it!
x.

Quick one, from Oxford’s own Cherwell…

The humble staging, however, was actually the perfect offset for three very different musical outfits. Figment were back on stage after a couple of months away from the live scene. The Bristol three-piece unleashed their brand of snarling, brawling rock with vim and fervour. Their energy was almost uncontainable, mic stands askew and t-shirts duly stripped, delivered at ear-splitting volume. They announced themselves with Reservoir Dogs style shouts and a bass line more infectious than an outbreak of food poisoning at a picnic serving prawn cocktail for starters.

Figment are clearly very tight – the illusion of spontaneity is clearly underpinned by the old formula talent versus practise. Drummer Harvey was impressive (and not just because of his pectorals), blowing out any January cobwebs with one particular drum solo that shook your very bones. The fairly subdued Sunday night crowd didn’t really know how to respond to the sweating, swaggering beast that commanded their attention. Figment don’t promise to change the world, but they do put out for a filthily good time. Look out for them live in 2008.

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supporting The (mighty mighty) Glitches

SATURDAY 16th Feb
@ “The Carling®©™”, Cowley Road, Oxford.
£5 tickets, give me a call 07791652748
music starts at 8pm.

Woop! Woop! Woop!

Should be a massive night. Hope you can make it

sand.x

Venue: The Cellar, Frewin Court, Oxford’s premier sweatpit

Date: Saturday 20th October

Time: 9pm start - on after the Rugby, win or lose, no excuse

Tax: £3 stoodent / £4 not

Support comes from Bad Punchline, who headlined our German tour this summer, this is one of 3 UK dates they’ll be playing this year, check them out myspace.com/badpunchline ,mmm lecker.

+ Smilex “the most exciting live rock ‘n’ roll band in the UK’s underground, gigging hard with the likes of The Datsuns, The 80’s Matchbox B-line Disaster, The Towers Of London and Selfish Cunt.”

Hope to see you there!
Sand. x