PrettyInScarlett

After Karkwa's excellent show on Thursday, we were eagerly awaiting the triple bill of Austra , Young Galaxy and Tasseomancy on Saturday 3rd... not to mention Feist! We first saw Tasseomancy in April supporting Timber Timbre ; I was impressed by them then. This time, the songs were still excellent (I've since listened to their new album Ulalume , which is superb) but their dreaminess seemed a tiny bit lost in Ritual.  They had a reasonable reception but I'm not sure how many concertgoers were familiar with their stuff. Young Galaxy In my mind Young Galaxy were equally as big a draw as Austra. Definitely an eagerly awaited set after muptiple spins of Shapeshifting ! Like Tasseomancy, Young Galaxy were limited to 30 minutes of performance; starting with 'Blowminded' and 'Long Live The Fallen World' certainly charged up the crowd! The rest of the set included songs like 'Peripheral Visionaries', 'We Have Everything' and 'Cover Y...

Timber Timbre have been described (by Ottawa Xpress amongst others) as folk/blues/gothic, i.e. hard to label music, and by themselves as writing music 'with chilling authenticity' (quoted from their website ). Timber Timbre consists of Taylor Kirk (who released his self-titled Timber Timbre in 2009) along with fellow multi-instrumentalists Mika Posen and Simon Trottier. Making waves as far as the Polaris long list, plus the playlists of BBC 6 Music and British online music magazine The Line Of Best Fit , the combined package was too enticing to refuse. Hence M and I headed to another new (for us) venue, First Baptist Church, for the album launch on 9th April. The church is pretty reasonable for a venue, dry again but this time for obvious reasons. A sizeable crowd turned up for the evening's entertainment which commenced with duo Tasseomancy - again quite hard to define, but maybe new/alt folk is a good place to start. Formerly known as Ghost Bees, the duo of Sary and R...

After a very long gap (in my case, 3 years - Goo Goo Dolls gig seems a very long time ago!) M and I braved Cardiff University's Great Hall to see Bat for Lashes on her current UK tour. The Hall's acoustics have thankfully been improved in recent years. A very enthusiastic crowd (though not a sell out) first welcomed touring support Yeasayer . I seemed to end up too busy to listen to them beforehand but was not disappointed, in fact we were very much impressed. Yeasayer hail from Brooklyn and there was a slight similarity with Vampire Weekend as well as a lot of 80s references. Very entertaining and I'll certainly be looking out for them again. After a short interval, Bat for Lashes (which, interestingly, consisted of Natasha Khan, plus majority female backing band of 5 -considering the usual type of bands we see!) came on. First note is the mix of instruments -violin and viola, 'computer corner', keyboard and what I believe is a zither. Second, that the audience w...