6:10 or something on a Wednesday night, and a combination of my heating breaking, having to buy a new electric razor and then realizing they don’t have normal-world power cables, and playing juggle-the-timing with this, my girlfriend catching a train home to Glasgow, and getting to eat some food before Times New Viking start tonight has left made me… well actually I guess going back aways you could say just generally my parents’ obsession with good timing, passed in some sort of evil fully-ingrained, can’t-even-be-late-when-tries-and-gets-annoyed-with-self-at-mere-prospect-of-poor-timing form to me, has put me in kind of a bad mood, which isn’t ideal for just before getting to ask some questions to, you know, actually like a proper band who aren’t even from this country or anything and stuff. Continue Reading

Los Campesinos. All photographs courtesy of Valerio Berdini and taken at the London leg of the tour.

I think me and my friends are getting boring. I should be at the peak of my young-and-aliveness, but now the golden days of spring are past and I’m just tired and contented, this once-exuberant music nerd, captured at least for now the perfect beautiful, dorky girl everything about my hobbies had been basically aimed at, and I’m left just… enjoying it? Since when is mere enjoyment something to fucking feel?

If this accelerated process of spiritual ageing is actually mostly in my head as a sort of dumbass way of processing genuine happiness (ohh god look at me, I’m such a contented cunt) but anyway, if this is anything to go by, I’ll be looking back nostalgically at ‘You! Me! Dancing!’ somewhen about next month. I don’t care whether you can maybe state a case for its ubiquity or not, it’s a really special song that basically sums up perfectly everything about the indie clubnight experience. But hey, haha, when Los Campesinos play it tonight I’m not one of the kids at the front bouncing about so alive, I’m slightly detached, jerking about, appreciating it myself in my own little bubble of “yes, this is personally significant”-ince. Continue Reading