Final escape
Last day of The Great Escape - Lorraine and I off in the evening to Horatios. This is a pub on the cheesy pier, which I'd never been to before. Inside there were stools to sit on, which was nice after two nights of standing for hours. The Black Box Revelation kicked us off. Great drummer/singer guitarist band rather unexpected in this cheesy pub at the bottom of the bill, and much the best band of the night. Then a band called S.C.U.M. slightly doomy gothic young things who were visually good, finally Ipso Facto a trio of women who didn't really butter my parsnips musically.
Phew. Three days of rocking over, and eight acts seen. Jolly good fun it was too. It's like having a crash course in new pop music, and the only act I positively didn't like was Emmy the Great. No doubt she'll be the most successful of them.
Below I got quite into taking photographs of the bands, but not using flash and so having ghostlike blurs and graininess and double imaging. Here are Jan Paternoster from the excellent The Black Box Revelation, S.C.U.M., and Ipso Facto.
Last day of The Great Escape - Lorraine and I off in the evening to Horatios. This is a pub on the cheesy pier, which I'd never been to before. Inside there were stools to sit on, which was nice after two nights of standing for hours. The Black Box Revelation kicked us off. Great drummer/singer guitarist band rather unexpected in this cheesy pub at the bottom of the bill, and much the best band of the night. Then a band called S.C.U.M. slightly doomy gothic young things who were visually good, finally Ipso Facto a trio of women who didn't really butter my parsnips musically.
Phew. Three days of rocking over, and eight acts seen. Jolly good fun it was too. It's like having a crash course in new pop music, and the only act I positively didn't like was Emmy the Great. No doubt she'll be the most successful of them.
Below I got quite into taking photographs of the bands, but not using flash and so having ghostlike blurs and graininess and double imaging. Here are Jan Paternoster from the excellent The Black Box Revelation, S.C.U.M., and Ipso Facto.
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