Posts

Showing posts from February, 2002

Peaches & Gonzales in the UK. Drownedinsound, Feb 2002.

Image
Article Here.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Nottingham Rock City, 3rd Feb 2003.

Image
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Nottingham Rock City, 2003. Full Review, Click Here. We are really lucky, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have toured the UK three times in the last ten months. If you haven’t had the chance to see them, what’s your excuse? There have been plenty of time to make travel arrangements. Well, as you’ll have read here on Drowned In Sound, The JSBX are on top form, their last two reviewed gigs going down a storm. However, by the time the Blues Explosion hit Nottingham, you quickly realise things have changed. Gone is the two hour set, replaced by something more linear and straight to the point. Gone was the finely toned stagetalk, replaced by something seemingly a bit more organic, such as “Jon Spencer Offers His Thoughts On The Prospect Of War With Iraq”/ Despite arriving in Nottingham direct from China, the Blues Explosion didn’t show signs of jetlag, what we did get was a set taking in a lot of older tracks such as the fa