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Lightspeed Champion @ Mercury Lounge, TLSP @ Cake Shop
Lighspeed Champion sweating @ ML, NYC - March 5, 2008
This show tonight...a sold out show by Lightspeed Champion at the Mercury Lounge...could be one of my most favorite shows in the city in a long time. Maybe it is because Falling Off The Lavender Bridge is already gunning for top spot on my "best of 2008" list and as such has made me look forward to this show with great anticipation. Maybe it is because "Midnight Surprise" can't be played enough recently by me; it is definitely one of the best 8 minute tracks of recent memory. Could be both. I don't know. But I do know I will do my best to try to relive this experience next week at SXSW like 12 times. [Fresh Bread]He covered the Strokes' "Heart In A Cage" and Olivia Newton John's "Xanadu." He plays Philly tomorrow, and a show in Brooklyn on Saturday night.
A few hours later a couple of his labelmates played a last minute gig down the street at Cake Shop....
The Last Shadow Puppets @ Cake Shop, NYC - March 5, 2008 (Kyle Dean Reinford)
very good last night, much louder than in brooklyn.Hey Hey My My opened for Lightspeed Champion @ Mercury Lounge, and later that night The Slits played the same venue.same set list, and the guys hung out in the crowd afterwards like the night before too [anon]
Posted on March 6, 2008 10:11 AM
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Did everyone kill it last night?
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 10:20 AM
the last shadow puppets have some james bond vs. ride of the valkyries type sound that is kind of awesome
and their slower songs are very beatles-y - they were cracking jokes in fake american accents about how people come up to them and say how they look like the beatles haha
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 10:25 AM
Yeah they hung out in the crowd after. I spoke to Alex for a while and secured my name on the guest list for any and every Arctic Monkeys show I want to go to
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 10:36 AM
10:20 - everyone destroyed.
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 10:57 AM
lightspeed champion is major poop
so is arctic monkeys
new last shadow puppets however is pretty great
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 12:05 PM
the opening band was pretty cool too
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 12:25 PM
punk as fuck, just like Test Icicles, he shredded on guitar
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 1:02 PM
lightspeed is cool.
not sure about the frodo baggins hobbit twins.
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 5:39 PM
that dev hynes blows. just another whiny hipster twat singing about girl troubles.
last shaddow puppets arent doing it for me. the rascals are blah. still love arctic monkeys. though i do agree that alex and miles look a bit like they just came back from the shire!
Posted by Anonymous | March 6, 2008 7:15 PM
jumping off the lavender bridge is definitely a fantastic record.
Posted by Mandy | March 7, 2008 12:24 AM
and by jumping i mean falling.
Posted by Mandy | March 7, 2008 12:24 AM