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We sent National fangirls Jen Long and Laura Snapes to Eindhoven, Holland for the Cross Linx Festival. Here’s what happened.
Cheese, Chocolate, Canadian Indie Rock? Over four nights, the Salle de Castillo played host to the Heartland festival, with headline shows from Owen Pallett, Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think.
Unashamedly pretty and very compelling, Owen Pallett has just proved to Danny Wadeson that he’s as wonderful in 17-minute chunks as he is in hour-long heart-rending epics
Owen Pallett never rests. Not long after the release of his well received album Heartland, he’s back with an EP of new stuff. A Swedish Love Story will be available on 10″ and download on 27th September. Tracklisting is as follows: 1. A man with no ankles 2. Scandal at the parkade 3. Honour the [...]
The 5th Annual Polaris Prize Shortlist has been announced, and features some old favourites, 5 returning nominees, and some TLOBF favourites….
Now in its 20th year, the initial line-up of France’s premier Summer festival has drawn quite a cast of artists; Massive Attack, The Flaming Lips, The National, Caribou, Liars and Owen Pallett are all confirmed for the three day festival which takes place in St Malo between August 13-15.
So the support act might have seemed like an odd choice, but Owen Pallett was on brilliant form as he treated the Koko crowd to a near perfect set list.
In perhaps not one of our classic interviews, Erik Thompson seems to catch Owen Pallett on a “difficult” day…
Flawed and flimsy in comparison with the bygone ‘greats’, but this is too much fun to put down, in both senses of that phrase. Andrew Dowdall reviews.
Easily the best gig of the year so far, Owen Pallett is a must-see act, especially at the perfect venue, Union Chapel.
There are several moments during Heartland where the songs reach a level so intensely personal that it feels uncomfortably invasive, as if we’re unavoidably listening in through paper thin walls.