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Larkin Grimm + The Kitchen Cynics + Lese Majesty


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I'm getting some sort of intelligence test as well pre interview. What fun! As soon as that interview is finished I start a report and presentation for one the following week...

Dave

soft drinks are allowed @ gigs

& gigs do finish early in time for last bus or maybe a lift?

this will test your intellegence!!!!!!!!!

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Les Majesty 21.00 (can't start earlier because there is a Theatre show in the next Tunnel)

Thereafter probably

The Kitchen Cynics 21.45

Larkin Grimm 22.30

Thanking you :up:

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LARKIN GRIMM(translated excerpt) from Dutch Goddeau Magazine:

Miss Grimm likes to describe her music as acoustic black metal. We however prefer to speak of new folk with a slightly insane edge. Harpoon is a record one must have heard, at least once. Judging by the intrinsic quality of the songs we can expect more beautiful stuff from her in the future.

Surely across the board appeal "acoustic black metal", I'd pay money for that!

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here's a nice review of Larkin's cd

Artist: Larkin Grimm

Album: Harpoon

Rating: 8/10

Label: Secret Eye

Larkin Grimm arrives under the same bustling avant-folk banner as Lau Nau, Josephine Foster and Spires That in the Sunset Rise. Her fractured tone poems revolve around gentle acoustic strums and fingerpicking, hand percussion, bells, flute and some multi-tracked vocal harmonies. With Harpoon she weaves a delirious, minimal dream of spectral wanderings that combines an accessible, but scattered, pop sensibility with ornate vocal embellishments. The cover sketch of Grimm spearing a gargantuan serpent through the skull is the perfect visual compliment for these empowering, occasionally sexually charged, musical evocations.

Opener, Entrance, is a shimmering bath of guitar plucks and percussive clatter, with Grimms layered siren vocal extolling one whose face is like a big black cloud, and his voice is like a thunderstorm to dramatic effect over an Eastern tinged melody. Going Out is a caustic stumble of a repetitive vocal mantra and tribal percussion which serves as a declaration of sensual longing that might leave one wondering if he/she could be strong enough, strange enough, and dark enough for this feral angel, while Patch it Up teeters on rustling free-folk branches before the music fades to reveal just Grimms vocals singing the haunted chorus -- a sweet trick, indeed, with a voice as disarming as this one.

Then theres the gorgeous Pigeon Food, a bittersweet slice of Carter Family old country fingerpicking crossed with the psychedelic production value of Comus. Grimms high-pitched voice describes in near Buddhist terms all the different little creatures that will eventually devour her: mind, body and soul. Her vocals, intertwining in vibrant tonal patterns with infectious harmonic backing, arouse a tingling catharsis that far outshines the songs brief two minutes. Its simply a knockout. Future Friend, on the other hand, combines blissful guitar strums and operatic harmony swirls into nine minutes of spacious, improvised freedom.

The title track is a breathtaking number that likens Grimms romantic struggles to a mythical whale hunt in which she is standing on the pier with a spear in one hand and my sweet golden heart in the other, and asking: Which one do you want: heart or harpoon? Grimms ambiguous climax of caterwauling laughter and percussive crashes could be as much directed at herself as her harpooned lover, and serves as powerful juxtaposition to the mournful pleas of the opening. Her subject matter isnt really anything new, but her musical settings are so unusual and unpredictable that it seems like it is. Another case in point: the gut-wrenching goodbye of Go Gently, which could serve just as easily as deathbed hymnal as a farewell to a lover.

Of course, there are plenty of artists that Grimm could be likened to. Ive already mentioned quite a few above. Chan Marshall of Cat Power is another, and Devendra Banhart, but Grimm is reaching back further here and occasionally revealing the same soul depths that marked the classic works of Buffy St. Marie and Linda Perhacs, albeit from her own skewed perspective. Its simply a stunning debut, anchored upon Grimms defiantly strong (and occasionally wounded) perspective on love and loss. Harpoon deserves a closer look by all fans of soulful, challenging, haunted folk music. - Lee Jackson

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Lese Majesty 21.00 (can't start earlier because there is a Theatre show in the next Tunnel)

Thereafter probably

The Kitchen Cynics 21.45

Larkin Grimm 22.30

Are the doors open before 9 though?

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yes doors from 8pm as usual; we will supply some excellent quieter entertainment to while away the 1st hour.

(whispers) I'm away to sleep... Do you remember who I am, what I look like? :up:

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