Hookers Green No.1 + Five Day Hemingway + Sweetheart + Dancing Mice in EH tonight

Engine · 23rd June 2005, 10:26 AM

Thu 23rd June at the Subway, 69 the Cowgate, Edinburgh, doors 7.30pm, £4 (£3 mailing-list members)
HOOKERS GREEN NO.1 + FIVE DAY HEMINGWAY + SWEETHEART + DANCING MICE (should be in that order)
About Hookers Green No.1:
"Now this is just weird... Incorporating the standard guitar, bass etc, we have organ, piano, glockenspiel, trombone, trumpet, cello, flute and... oh I can't go on. The core of HG#1 is a 2-piece under the monikers of J.Turgenev and N.H.G. If we're going to go for the lazy comparisons again, then it's not a million miles from the fragility of Mercury Rev, but if Mercury Rev recorded at home and had just been listening to Miles Davis and the Warp Records back-catalogue. And if they lived in Aberdeen. The amount of instruments used makes it sound like it could be overly pretentious, but it's anything but. It's got a lovely, warm, lo-fi sound, which doesn't strangle the tunes. Bags of imagination here. "We sampled Frank Sinatra, police cars, and a programme about mormons," just so you know." Drowned in Sound
http://www.hookersgreen.com

The world according to Rye · 23rd June 2005, 05:33 PM

Are Dancing Mince any good?

vivouk · 23rd June 2005, 09:42 PM

First time I wanted to see HG#1, they pulled out of a Dundee gig about 1/2 a day before it started.

Second time, they play Edinburgh the day I graduate (& have family celebrations etc.)

I will see them one day...

23rd June 2005, 10:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Engine Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 59	Hookers Green No.1 + Five Day Hemingway + Sweetheart + Dancing Mice in EH tonight Thu 23rd June at the Subway, 69 the Cowgate, Edinburgh, doors 7.30pm, £4 (£3 mailing-list members) HOOKERS GREEN NO.1 + FIVE DAY HEMINGWAY + SWEETHEART + DANCING MICE (should be in that order) About Hookers Green No.1: "Now this is just weird... Incorporating the standard guitar, bass etc, we have organ, piano, glockenspiel, trombone, trumpet, cello, flute and... oh I can't go on. The core of HG#1 is a 2-piece under the monikers of J.Turgenev and N.H.G. If we're going to go for the lazy comparisons again, then it's not a million miles from the fragility of Mercury Rev, but if Mercury Rev recorded at home and had just been listening to Miles Davis and the Warp Records back-catalogue. And if they lived in Aberdeen. The amount of instruments used makes it sound like it could be overly pretentious, but it's anything but. It's got a lovely, warm, lo-fi sound, which doesn't strangle the tunes. Bags of imagination here. "We sampled Frank Sinatra, police cars, and a programme about mormons," just so you know." Drowned in Sound http://www.hookersgreen.com

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23rd June 2005, 05:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
The world according to Rye Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Dundee Posts: 2,385	Are Dancing Mince any good?

23rd June 2005, 09:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
vivouk Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 352	First time I wanted to see HG#1, they pulled out of a Dundee gig about 1/2 a day before it started. Second time, they play Edinburgh the day I graduate (& have family celebrations etc.) I will see them one day...