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That Was “The Week That Was”!
12:41 PM GMT 24/09/2008
LAST NIGHT, POP’S brainy but beautiful future visited East London, as Wearside’s Brewis brothers unfurled their topnotch The Week That Was incarnation in the live arena.
October’s MOJO club night was hosted by The Slaughtered Lamb venue, intimate environs along the lines of a big old living room – a louche vibe exploited to the max by opening act Absentee, whose charred, Lee & Nancy go guitar pop manifesto beguiled. Their second album, Victory Shorts, is out this week on Memphis Industries.
Challenged to reproduce the tricksiness and sonic resplendence of their album as a mere quartet, headliners The Week That Was sacrificed strings and such and gained in verve and rock dynamics. Pete Gofton added baritone guitar and marimba, Kev Dosdale switched between guitar and keys and David Brewis made like the Dairy Milk ape on big, resonant drums.
Alternately lost in the songs or laughing like a drain, diminutive TWTW composer Peter Brewis led from the front, wringing gravity from furrowed-brow epic Learn To Learn and quicksilver Lindsey Buckingham shimmer from melodymungous single The Airport Line. The experience left this writer convinced that if the Brewis camp is not the most fecund pop force in the nation right now, then the Dairy Milk ape is his nephew.
More in the next issue of MOJO, out October 28.
Danny Eccleston
Pictures: Simon Fernandez
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:41 PM GMT 24/09/2008
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