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Not really a Review: Low at Koko, July 26th.

Performing Things We Lost In The Fire as part of ATP’s Don’t Look Back 2006 season. And being totally sweet. I’ve never really made lists of my favourite things before but I now have a list of favourite gigs. So far it has this on it, at the top, and that’s it. They were that good.

Koko is a fantastic venue and I was right at the front. And on the way home a drunk got his head trapped in the doors of the Northern line. Which could have been awful, but everyone pitched in to prise them apart and he seemed all right, so I guess laughing wasn’t that bad.

Photos here.

Review: Farewell Kingdom, Dream’s End Come True and The Lie Lay Land — World’s End Girlfriend.

Japanese post–rock. Sounds a bit like Venetian Snares meets 90s demo scene music meets, er, whoever did the music for Taito’s platform games in the 80s. Or like a giant made out of synthesizers beating a video arcade to death as a string quartet plays for it a requiem. Or like a lullaby.

It’s pretty amazing.

Noble got this all the way from Tokyo in a week without even one of the little CD–holding tabs breaking off, joining the ranks of excellent foreigners showing up British record shops who often can’t manage the same from just down the road in less than a month without breaking all of them.