With a small army of cameras, microphones and human bodies, the Tuckshop Community team ventured to a super-modern seconadry school in North London, accompanied by the gleefully engaging Everything Everything. Before setting up in one of the school's cavernous art rooms, the band showed us their mini-but-state-of-the-art-tour bus (think a sort of sexy four wheeled empty pimped-up sandwich packet holder, complete with its own very unique sealed-in band musk).
Once they were nestled in among the empty paint pots, questionable GCSE art work and a sign that ominously declared ‘All A2 work not collected this week WILL be thrown away', they were utterly brilliant. Though the band are can in no way be described as ‘acoustic’, they rose to (and exceeded) the challenge. Singing pitch perfect despite the drums bouncing off the walls, they kept time like a metronome. Stripped of nearly all the electrics, the songs remain both melodically and harmonically impressive, as well as having a sense of real craft in the swell and ebb of the arrangements.
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The session flashed past and after a couple of blasts of previous singles Schoolin', Photoshop Handsome and Suffragette, Suffragette, the band darted back up North (Manchester), preparing for a summer of heavy touring and the launch of their debut album. We thank them again for taking the time and effort to stop by and play for us.
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Thanks to Didi Mae and Ayeshah Zolgadr for the photos.
