Live music listings: April 2006

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Sat 29th

The London Wonderland Festival presents
KAT FLINT
+ Revere
+ Waver
+ The Sliding Rule

Doors 8.00
£5 via WeGotTickets

Young and lost, witty and wise, beauty with bite and a hangover, Kat Flint is one of the most engaging acoustic artists around, with a rapidly growing following, a distinctive way with words and a reputation for intimate live shows radiating her peculiar blend of energy, sarcasm and indie-folk charm.
Born in Barbados, raised in Aberdeen, coming of age in Edinburgh and waking up in London, Kat is now hundreds of miles from home and finding that splendid isolation is all the better for writing songs. She spent four years on the vibrant Edinburgh acoustic scene playing with her much-loved band gingergreen, plus various members of the prodigiously talented Edinburgh Sound Collective (of which she was a founder member).
Her eloquent tales of junkyard prostitutes, life in the fearsome crowd and the fact that your lover is 72.8% water have won many admirers, and in 2005 she was presented with the inaugural New Lyric Award by Ray Davies and Channel 4. She gets mightily pissed off with the kind of whiny, histrionic ladies who give women in music a bad name. She's also pretty good on guitar 'for a girl."
She is currently completing work on her debut release, ''The Secret Boy's Club EP'.
Main support Revere are "beautifully unpredictable. This is where to head when the disappointment from the new Coldplay album sets in'' [Mojo]
"One of the best bands you've never heard of." [The Guardian]
It's becoming increasingly difficult to categorize music by Revere. Incorporating violin, cello, and trumpet into a three guitar-led sound, they touch on numerous musical reference points, combining elements of gypsy marches, klezmer, post rock, film scores and gospel into a truly unique sound. Live, they play with an unparalleled intensity, working songs from music-box soft openings into relentless walls of sound shot through with a show-stopping falsetto.
First on are Waver, a Swedish duo who play melody-driven pop with soaring choruses and a touch of melancholy. Their first album 'Population: Fifteen', released in Sweden in June 2004, gained great reviews, was acclaimed as one of the best albums of the year and described as 'the sound of the Swedish winters'.
This show at Lumi is their first gig ever in the UK.