So The June Club Ugly left it's final Tuesday slot with a fair amount of gusto. It was indeed a cracker of an evening further embossing the haphazard Club Ugly brand into all those around to a level that even the likes of Sir Alan Sugar would have been impressed with. Whilst the whole of London roasted. The Club Ugly suprisingly remained cool.
Eddie Halliday opened proceedings playing records straight from his latest album "replaced by these colours", armed with no more than a few guitars and a Dr Rhythm he hand picked his way through an impressive opening set, showing us all why the good guys at naked tree recordings have yet again put faith in him. With a mix of old and new records, some loud and some sweet. Eddie Halliday left the Club Ugly entourage with both envy and admiration as he sang, strummed and daintily stepped between his line of guitar pedals, paving the way for a que of newfound admirers wantng a copy of his latest recordings.
Admittedly (due to a heavy work load), I hadn't done my homework on Off Ground Touch, and as a result hadn't even played them on Tuckshop Community Radio. "I think you'll like them" Tobias had told me as we sat outside the Social earlier that evening tucking into Chicken soup fresh from Itsu which was conveniently located round the corner. "The new stuff they're doing is cracking" he added imbetween slurps, and boy was he right as within the first few chords of thier set, I with everyone else fell into a trance and collectively hummed along to happy melodies accompanied by harmonica's, banjo, electric drum kits and soothing vocals. I will indeed be chasing them for a few recordings in the near future so keep your ears open.
Even though Jared, our compere for the evening kept the crowd in good humour, introducing to us all the new social networking game of Club Ugly Soul Mates (Come down on the 23rd to play the next installement) I'm not quite sure if anyone was fully prepared for the theatrics that surrounded the 8 instrument strong ensemble of Gabby Young and Other Animals. With the brass section standing in with the crowd, Club Ugly perhaps more than ever before became fully immersed with the performing band, the front row telepathically ducked every time the trombomist burst into solo, the second row and beyond swung to the swinging bass and ticking drums, whilst those on the side, shimmied up and down the aisle as Gabby sang strong.
It was indeed, yet again a fantastic evening and although we feel a little sad to be leaving our Tuesday slot, we look forward to seeing you on Thursday the 23rd July where we'll have some more fun and games
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