27 February 2010
Compton Terrace saw a lot of musical activity on Saturday, with 9 acts listed to play at the 2nd folky/acoustic one-day fest from promoter Platforms:live.
Plus points included Blue Roses, and a fine early set from Pete Roe, new to me, followed by personal favourites Go Away Birds, who could never be less than delightful, although maybe only scored a 50% success rate with their attempts, on two or three songs, at a bigger sound to try and fill the volume of the chapel - didn't need to push it, would have been perfect without straining....
Main highlight of the day was the 10th, unannounced, act; a not un-forseeable detour during Jeremy Warmsley's set where he was joined for two songs by Elizabeth Sankey for Summer Camp's live debut, part of their warm-up routine for SXSW. They seemed happy with their efforts - not unreasonably, as they came across very well - with just the 2 voices and guitar making a decent stab at the smooth dance-pop recordings in circulation. (One here.) I don't know too much about JW, but seem to enjoy his collaborations more than his solo work, and have come to find the Summer Camp tracks extremely pleasing. Look forward to more.
The other scrap-book item was Emmy The Great, who I can pretty much take or leave, being joined for a 'fans choice' song by Darren Hayman, who appears to have Minor Legend status, but I must have been looking the other way whilst it was being earned as I don't think I've ever heard a note of his output. Apparently as many as 5 or 6 votes were cast for a Girls Aloud song to be the nominated cover, and with good grace they went with it, albeit correcting the lyrics firstly for A) grammar, on grounds of understanding that double negatives and abbreviations aren't proper English, and B) driving-related content, on grounds of taste. Can't argue with either refinement, although in performance it ended up as a keyboard-led electro-popper which may or may not have been an improvement on the original; I am as uninformed on this point as I am on so many others.
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