Laura Marling at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Laura Marling
Gill Landry
Goodbye Chanel
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 29 April 2015

Near the end of the show tonight Laura Marling begins to play Warrior, the opening track on her new album Short Movie, and just completely forgets the words. She laughingly stops the band to compose herself, telling us "it's a lot of words to remember!" before flawlessly restarting where she left off. Not surprisingly it gets one of the biggest applauses of the night and, after such a serious, emotional and banter-free night, it provides a nice moment of levity.

Mounties at XOYO

Mounties

XOYO, 15 April 2015

First off, XOYO is a new club to me. Just a stone's throw from Old Street roundabout (bizarrely it's actually opposite a boy's secondary school), it reminded me of the old grotty venues that smelled of horrible incense I remember going to see bands in back in the 1990s.