As promised in my last quick post, here are the videos we took when we supported Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl’s supergroup) at the Albert Hall last week (if you’re in a hurry or you just want to see the Little Fish set (in front of a HUGE screen) jump to Part 4):
The gig last night was amazing. Video footage to come, but here’s some stuff I’ve collected from around the web. I’ll keep updating it as I find more:
@JuAyres : Banda de abertura: Little Fish! Nao conhecia, mas vejam bem, sao muito melhores que o (spit) Fresno!
Mon Mar 22 19:47:40 +0000 2010 from txt
@srsaint : Little Fish at Royal Albert Hall http://twitpic.com/1aantp
Mon Mar 22 19:55:17 +0000 2010 from twidroid
@catmacdonald : Little Fish open Teenage Cancer Trust gigs. Lead singer is so Patti Smith. www.teenagecancertrust.org.
Mon Mar 22 20:00:46 +0000 2010 from Echofon
@Zed906 : Support band surprisingly good. They're called Little Fish by the way
Mon Mar 22 20:04:36 +0000 2010 from Echofon
@NotFakeGina : Little Fish are excellent!
Mon Mar 22 20:05:08 +0000 2010 from Echofon
@VonSpacebee : Little Fish (support band) Fucking Good. Make a fearsome racket.
Mon Mar 22 20:17:40 +0000 2010 from Twitterrific
@PokerGodTCP : Little Fish rocking out like mad people. Awesome supporting act! http://twitpic.com/1aasl5
Mon Mar 22 20:19:52 +0000 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
@solobasssteve : @ihatemornings Now the you're the proper Rockness, do you become @ihatemörnings ? :)
Mon Mar 22 20:31:53 +0000 2010 from Gravity
@kahunageezer : Little Fish have been on, great band! Roger Daltry has just been and gone - now for Them Crooked Vultures!!
Mon Mar 22 20:49:27 +0000 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
@Joff_Brown : Has fallen in love with the lead singer of little fish tonight. Oh and them crooked vultures were absolutely breathtaking. Dave grohl = king
Mon Mar 22 23:55:22 +0000 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
@jjlevene : @Littlefishmusic yeahman! You guys were so awesome! Arctic monkeys were next to me and they seemed to enjoy it too :D
Tue Mar 23 13:27:45 +0000 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
Attribution (need a better gallery plugin…):
UPDATE: I’ve posted all the videos from the gig!!
DAVE FRIGMOTHERING GROHL soundchecking his drums. Get in. ;) [on 12seconds.tv]:
In a bizarre twist of fate I’ve ended up playing Hammond organ for Little Fish. This is a good thing. Little Fish rocks, I love playing the Hammond and I get to play the Royal Albert Hall.
The backstory is rather convoluted, so I’ll try to keep it short. It begins at the Zodiac in 2001…
I went to see the Roadworks Songwriters Tour at the Zodiac. There was a guy called Jont who was great and wore no shoes. I went to his monthly gig at the 12-Bar Club a few times and drank a lot of tequila.
Over the next five years I went to loads of his gigs. Some of them were UNLIT (a mixture of a house party and a gig), and eventually I put on an UNLIT of my own at the Gardeners Arms in January 2008. Jont played, I did a set at the piano and Stornoway played acoustic. Jont noticed that I could actually play, and I started to play piano at some of his gigs. We played a load of house concerts, small gigs and festivals around England (and a couple in Paris) through 2008/9.
Last year Jont put together a band he likes to call The Infinite Possibility (a 7-piece with bass, electric guitar, pedal steel, piano, backing vocals, percussion and my brother on drums) and we recorded an album, produced by Nigel of Bermondsey. A couple of weeks ago we were down at Rotator rehearsing for a final recording session (Jont wrote a new song that’s going on the album). JuJu from Little Fish turned up to sing some vocals on the new track. It turns out she had been looking for a Hammond player for almost a year, and I’m a Hammond player.
It’s slightly insane. In a couple of weeks I’ll be sitting behind a beautiful Hammond XK-3 and staring wide-eyed past JuJu with her 50s Gibson and Nez with his immaculately tuned drum kit, into a 3-storey sea of Them Crooked Vultures fans. Not bad for a Monday night.
Unfortunately it’s all sold out (in – like – 0.3 seconds), but we’re playing another half dozen gigs around the country in the next couple of weeks (Bristol tomorrow, then Portsmouth, Oxford, London, Nottingham, Manchester). You should come and see us!
Jont is running a series of Sunday gigs at (Up)market, an outdoor market just off Brick Lane. The gig runs from 1-6pm, and there are four or five acts playing at each one.
I’m playing this afternoon (probably around 4pm), and again next week. If you’re in London, you should come and check it out. The bands will be playing in the market square (you can’t miss them), or if the weather won’t play nice we’ll be in the underground tea room. Either way, it’s going to be a classic UNLIT-style happening with (apparently) really good cake.
If I can carry all the technology I’ll liveblog some photos, but whatever happens I’ll post some video updates on my 12seconds channel and Twitter away like a maniac as usual.
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