Live music listings: September 2006
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Mon 18th
Eat Your Own Ears presents
TILLY AND THE WALL
+ Fear of Flying
+ Adele
Doors 7.30
SOLD OUT.
NO TICKETS ON THE DOOR.
Midwestern band Tilly And The Wall consists of two dressed-down boys, two glamorous girls and one frenzied hoofer, the tutu-wearing Julie Williams.
With pockets full of melodies they sprang out of Nowheresville, USA, with a penchant for classic '60s pop, boy/girl harmonies and American folk records. They create jagged, elegant songs, and rejoice in tales of friendship, broken hearts, and youthful dreams and frustrations. Their sound is distinctive and classic at the same time. If you're looking for reference points, somewhere between Rilo Kiley, Belle And Sebastian and Bright Eyes would be a good place to start. And the songs are as catchy as anything. Perfectly humable after one listen. And likely to induce involuntary toe tapping. Talking of which - percussion on most tracks is provided by Julie's nimble-toed tap-dances! She's also been known to bang old leather suitcases with drumsticks.
"An optimistic celebration of self-destruction, unspoken longing and adolescent rebellion, it combines the whimsical spirit of the Polyphonic Spree with the melancholy of Kirsty MacColl." [The Guardian]
Main support are Fear of Flying. They play a set of dance-floor filling guitar pop, sounding like a cunning mix of Franz Ferdinand and The Smiths with a jerky chorus that steals The Ramones' 'hey ho' phrase.
First on is Adele who mixes tradtional/urban Indie Soul with adds of Scatinn' Jazz and old skool ad libs with hints of Ska and bits of pop.
"Inspired by early jazz and the nu-skool of artists such as jill scott, adele mixes her brixton roots with old skool vibes to form what is beautiful, too late and many others..." [NME]
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