kate tempest – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:41:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png kate tempest – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 Caught By The River https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/caught-by-the-river/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/caught-by-the-river/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:41:00 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=5673 Music, literature, beer and nature, all in the city. Sounds kind of perfect? That’s what will be on offer at Caught By The River, a new two day festival to hit London this summer.
Taking place over the 6th and 7th August at Fulham Palace, the creators of the event (fresh from curating and promoting stages at Port Eliot, Festival No 6, Field Day and the Good Life Experience) describe the festival as ‘part gig, part literary gathering, part nature symposium, and part high-summer garden party.’
The line up is certainly diverse. Super Furry Animals and Low will be headlining, and joined on the music stages by Beth Orton, Mulatu Astatke, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Gwenno, and more, whilst the literature side of things is led by Kate Tempest, Faber & Faber, Amy Liptrot and Paul Kingsnorth. There’s also stages to be announced curated by stages from the Canal and River Trust, the Idler Academy, the Museum of British Folklore and the Caught by the River Bookshop.
Weekend tickets are only £55 and available here.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/caught-by-the-river/feed/ 1 Some of the best tracks of 2014 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/some-of-the-best-tracks-of-2014/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/some-of-the-best-tracks-of-2014/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:27:32 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=4447 Only some of them mind, because trying to shoehorn such a deliriously rich of year of music into one succint list is, frankly, impossible.
Future islands – Seasons (Waiting For You)

Thanks to Sam Herring’s bad dad dancing on the Letterman show this rousing, triumphant and exuberant tune made its way onto my playlist – and stayed there.
Caribou – Can’t Do Without (You)

I imagine that this is the sonic equivalent of raving through a technicolor speckled marshmallow.
Wild Beasts – Wanderlust

Articulate and mature songwriting, a vehement commitment to carnal exploration and superbly acerbic lyrics -‘Don’t confuse me with someone who gives a fuck.’
Only Real – Cadillac Girl

Rolling along with the slacker vibes of rooftops down and tinnies cracked open, this song drips with the scorch of summer.
Coves – Cast A Shadow

Bristling and crackling with incendiary compulsion, Cast A Shadow is one of only many unashamedly blindingly brilliant songs on Coves’ debut album Soft Friday.
Jamie T – Limits Lie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncIQq1PEBss
Since the Cockney cheek of Sheila Jamie T has done some growing up, but the sounds of his experiences still sizzle with as much snarl and giddy intensity as ever.
Kate Tempest – Lonely Daze

The year poetry become popular, Kate Tempest dazzled with wit, burning her perceptive lyrics into the consciousness with her dynamic and unrelenting, textured delivery.
Little May – Hide

In their music of sweet wafting auras, expansive and earnest melodies and a fizzing dance of poignant moments and happy layers, Sydney trio Little May have beguiled hearts over 2014.
Honeyblood – Killer Bangs

Angry fuzz fuelled punk, the pulsating pace seeping out of the splurge of grubby riffs and jangly guitars – no bass mind.
Sharon van Etten – Everytime The Sun Comes Up

Her voice breaks me, her songs like skin revealing a life lived, chords like deeply formed scars and a delicate gravelly voice the whisper of luminence into the darkness, deceptively inviting.
St Vincent – Digital Witness

She pouts, struts, burning high, each glare to the crowd a jolt into a slightly seedy and decadent musical masquerade – Annie Clark is quite the frontwoman. The pulsating beats, glitchy synths and energetic disco sleekness mean that her songs are not bad either.
The Away Days – Your Colours

Indie dream pop from Istanbul might not sound like the kind of thing to make it to best of list (although again I refer you to Sam Herring) but the combination of blissful pattering drums, melodies like light winds on the neck, and heavy chords imbued with dystopian anticipation illustrate very nicely that it totally works.
Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me

Whether dancing around my room with eyes closed or wandering the lush green expanse of Hampstead Heath, I spent much of summer 2014 singing out for Archie to marry me. He didn’t.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/some-of-the-best-tracks-of-2014/feed/ 0 Book Slam, Bethnal Green https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/book-slam-bethnal-green/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/book-slam-bethnal-green/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:30:17 +0000 http://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=4095 We are gathered in York Hall, Bethnal Green, to be ‘KO’d by the power of words’ as the booming voice of compere Doc Brown tells us, the echo resonating around the school gym style room. Filled with tables of chattering people, munching and drinking whilst they soak up the literary genius of performers, the night is centred around a boxing ring. Literally, it’s a slam. Tonight it’s the opportunity of ‘book nerds to meet the boxing hards who used to beat them up’ – and those book nerds come out victorious.

Opener and bull running story teller, Bill Hillman’s set is dense and colourful with words, but less easily eloquent than other speakers, which is not to take anything away from the quality of his prose.

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