Arcade Fire played a pleasing smattering of hits, the best for me being ‘Roccoco’ (lots of good ooh-ing from the crowd), ‘Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)’, which made me a bit teary, ‘Haiti’, ‘Intervention’, ‘We Used To Wait’, ‘Keep The Car Running’ and ‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’. The band have written so many good songs,...
The Vaccines – Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) ‘Wreckin Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’ by The Vaccines is one minute and twenty- four seconds of infectious guitar music, with touches of retro, surf, the 70s, lo- fi and something new. Justin Hayward’s voice is as distinctive and more- ish on this track as it was...
Jay Jay Pistolet’s “new direction”, much speculated about since he hung up his acoustic guitar last year, was revealed recently. He’s the singer with new London-based rock ‘n’ rollers The Vaccines. There’s not much info about the band to be found on their website. But if you like an arty photo or two, you’d...
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