Sexwitch at XOYO

Sexwitch 
Baba Naga

XOYO, 29 September 2015

When Natasha Khan, the enchantress behind Bat For Lashes, revealed she would be playing a tiny gig in support of her surprise side project with indie band Toy and producer Dan Carey, of course I didn't even need to hear the music to know I wanted to go. It was a rare opportunity to see Khan perform in a small venue and besides the project - psychedelic covers of obscure traditional folk songs from around the world - sounded more than intriguing. It was enough anyway to entice me to brave the terrible Old Street nightclub that is XOYO and join other Khan obsessives to see the debut gig of Sexwitch (which I must say is such an awful name, such a shame it wasn't Red Witch as many fans speculated it might be).

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.