Pic 'n' Mixx Returns With Lucky Soul
Tuesday 10 August, Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Pic ‘n’ Mixx presents… Lucky Soul + The School + The Lodger with How Does It Feel To Be Loved + Pocketbooks DJs
Tickets (£9): link>
• LUCKY SOUL link
In an alternate universe where Cowellism doesn’t rule (and ruin) everything it surveys, that bubble is already planet-sized and Lucky Soul are already huge. With A Coming Of Age, these pop dreamers have made the record which deserves to make that a reality. (Simon Price)
***Independent on Sunday: “The sound of a band switching from black-and-white to colour. One of the albums of the year, hands down”
***Metro: “A romantically British institution”
***The Word: “Just pure uncut delight, and we can’t stop playing this… “
***Pitchfork: “Confident song craft, teenager-sized emotion, and overall pop immediacy”
***Popjustice: “a high quality pop troupe”
• THE SCHOOL link
For years, fans of the best pop have waited anxiously for that group that was going to occupy the space between The Pipettes and Belle & Sebastian, heirs of the best pop from the sixties, and the best Scottish pop. In The School, they'll find more gems than a jewellery store.
***Pitchfork: “Swaying and winsome with some of the Phil Spector lushness of Lucky Soul, the Belle & Sebastian-style modesty of Camera Obscura, and the airy, girl-group vocals of both.”
***Molly Ringwald, speaking about 'All I Wanna Do': “This song just makes me feel happy. It's very young. You just want to hold hands with someone while you listen to it.”
***Everett True: “mightily lovable”
• THE LODGER link
Beginning in a Leeds bedsit in 2004 as Ben Siddall's solo project, The Lodger are now three albums and tour of the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA into their career.
***Coke Machine Glow: “songs in which happiness and anxiety scuffle in an ostensibly cartoonish flurry of dust and keypad squawk, but somehow, and quite unexpectedly, leave real bruises when the clouds part”
***Pitchfork: “(they bring) refreshing, hook-filled simplicity to the Orange Juice blend of disco and sensitive jangle-pop”
With HDIF and Pocketbooks DJs ‘til 1am