gnarly drone through giant orange stacks

so the lankum gig was good (if not quite as earth shattering as the first time he saw them) - jesus, we’ll have to seriously up our game.



lankum have radie peat’s voice and her harmonium drone - giant gnarly drone through two giant orange amplifier stacks (exactly the kind of amplifiers beloved by stoner doom bands and hated by roadies because of how heavy they are), but they also have a fantastic ability to harmonise and crucially they have the tunes (cold old fire in particular).

horsemouth likes the lankum version of katie cruel - but for his money you can’t beat the karen dalton version. horsemouth is a little unsure why he’s recording it himself. 

he also liked lankum’s political analysis ‘(I’m no economist but) we’re fucked. you’re fucked. we’re all fucked.’




brighde chaimbeul was on first - bagpipes, scottish tunes and bulgarian ones. that was pretty great also (would go well with laura cannell). horsemouth is not up on bagpipe terminology - is it the chanter that’s the pipe that the tune is played on then there are various drone pipes tuned by twisting them.

cheers to lou for getting the tickets (and for getting everyone there early so we could get seats). good to see everyone.