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LUCKY SOUL live at The Blow Up Club
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck
Presented by: Blow Up| 0 | LONDON: Bar Rumba |
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| P | Saturday 6th June, 2009 |
| N | 10:00pm |
Event information
London 5-piece Lucky Soul are the most exciting thing to come out of Greenwich since time itself - this much is already clear on the basis of their hugely acclaimed debut album The Great Unwanted and their stunning live performances, all of which have proved incapable of inspiring anything but excited superlative proclamations from the press. The band are fronted by the beautiful Ali Howard whose voice, with its interplay of fragility and power, brings to mind Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and the Ronettes’ Veronica Bennett. But it is guitarist and songwriter Andrew Laidlaw’s persistent faith in his art - and his ear for a direct, shimmering, irresistible melody - that is winning them their growing army of admirers:
"Exquisitely understated songs about heartache, loneliness and smalltown despair...as if Petula Clark had been touched by Phil Spector's production alchemy" The Guardian
"Pop at its most glorious and heartbreaking" 5/5 Metro Album of the Week
"A band to fall in love with...This is heartache you can sway to" Independent on Sunday
"A glorious collection of pop symphonies...it's hard not to be won over" **** Uncut
"Grand, unabashed pop." 8/10 Pitchfork
Playing as support are Blow Up's very own swedish indie popsters Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck:
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck"Think The Concretes with strings and a folky/indie edge. Grand songs, delivered well" Stool Pigeon
"Lovely, gentle folk inspired indie pop that invokes the idea of Jens Lekman fronting Belle & Sebastian. Simple as that" indieMP3
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Venue information
LONDON: Bar Rumba| 0 | 36 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 7EP |
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| > | www.blowup.co.uk/ |
| ! | 020 7287 6933 |
| ` | Doors 10pm - 4am |
