Cajun Dance Party… July 18

Cajun Dance Party
with jakobinarina
at the Luminaire, July 18, 2007
Reviewed by Stephen Jersak

Hunting for shows to go to in London, I couldn’t surf the internet for five minutes without wading waist-deep into the hype that surrounds Cajun Dance Party, who as far as I can tell, are only popular because they’re just fresh out of high school. With this many rave reviews I had to check them out. The final date of their UK tour was smack in the middle of my trip, so I made a note of it, not bothering to buy an £8 ticket.

Tin Pan Alley Festival… July 15

Tin Pan Alley Festival 2007
with Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Help She Can’t Swim, Future of the Left, We Start Fires, Bolt Action Five, Sunset Cinema Club, the People’s Revolutionary Choir, 35 Seconds, Post War Years, and Herra Hidro
on Denmark Street, London, July 15, 2007
Reviewed by Stephen Jersak

Disclaimer: the following is taken from notes of various scribblousness, taken in various states of sobriety, and as such, may not be totally reliable. I think that I at least have all the bands right, but various details may be mixed up.

Scrounging the internet a couple weeks before heading for the UK I found this free festival on my first weekend in London. I spent the morning of in Greenwich with my family doing very little, and around one (the festival allegedly started at eleven, but I doubt showing up that early would yield any decent music) found my way to a tube station. The underground is like the SkyTrain, had it been built over a hundred and fifty years, and planned out well with a good, easy to use system (although the collapse of the company in charge is front page news). Of course, when the tube first opened, Vancouver had a temporarily inflated population of 30 000 thanks to a gold rush.