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The Yorker presents this week's succinct guide to goings-on of the musical variety, both locally and nationally. Here you'll find previews of a selection of single releases from the week ahead, as well as a guide to the hottest tickets in town for live music.
On Tuesday, Southampton-based indie band The Delays make a return to The Duchess, touring ahead of the June release of their fourth studio album Star Tiger, Star Ariel. If you seek a more mellow evening of musical entertainment then head over to Fibbers where songstress Martha Tilston presents her folk stylings, accompanied by her band The Woods and supported by Richard Walters and Holly Taymar.
The campus provides live music on Wednesday with a recital of Chopin and Schumann given by the pianist Sarah Beth Briggs at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, a perfect relaxing interlude in your week.
The weekend sees a flurry of tribute bands descend upon the city with The Duchess hosting The Complete Stone Roses on Friday and Guns 2 Roses on Saturday, while the acclaimed Led Zepplin tribute act Whole Lotta Led pay a visit to Fibbers on Friday. However, if it’s something new your ears are in search of then look no further than Fibbers on Saturday when you can hear the electro-pop of Lights (stage name of Canadian born singer-songwriter Valerie Anne Poxleitner), fresh from her stint supporting Owl City.
Foals – Orient
Foals’ 'post-rock' style can been heard in the first few seconds of ‘This Orient’; it succeeds in aurally ‘sparkling’, but it is almost drowned out once the singing kicks in, with the band themselves sounding bored, reciting dreary lyrics, including the endless repetition of the line ‘it’s your heart that gives me this Western feeling’. Still, there is something very charming if you let yourself melt into the rhythm and atmosphere that the instrumental aspects of the song create.
Natalija Sasic
Plastiscines – Another Kiss
Girl punk rock bands are few and far between, but teenage French band Plastiscines shouldn’t let that stop them. Their name immediately makes you think of The Saturdays, but their sound is much closer to The Donnas, made more intriguing with the hint of their French accents. Also they play their own instruments, an authenticity which comes across in this song. The repetitive lyrics of the chorus become slightly irritating, but that’s just splitting hairs. Wannabe teenage rock stars take note: this is what you should be aiming for.
Hannah McCarthy
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Time Of The Assassins
With IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg delivered one of the most affecting albums of the year. Now with the release of ‘Time Of The Assassins’ as the second single she has unleashed her crowning glory. This song, where her sultry voice is wrapped in dreamy interplay of melodies, is unlikely to make a dent on the charts making it all the more precious to those who have discovered her.
Peter Searle
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