The Worship St Irregulars

Dateline: Hoxton Bar & Grill, Thursday 20th March 2008

Ed: This article got submitted to us; we don’t know the band, but we liked the review. Get in touch if you’ve written a review you think would work on the site

Squeeze through to the back of the Hoxton Bar & Grill and you’ll find a curtain. Behind the curtain is an intimate but exciting music venue which filled up nicely on the Thursday before Easter as three-piece Toy! Toy! prepared to entertain a de-mob happy crowd. This was the biggest gig of their short career (Ed - debatable considering that they’ve previously played at the Old Blue Last supporting Electricity in Our Homes) supporting the much more established The Shortwave Set. But if Toy! Toy! were nervous at the prospect they don’t show it.

They’re a band who have a lot more gumption to them live than their initial recordings might suggest and they launched into a blistering set, anchored by Synth Girl’s shuddering keyboards, propelled by Sticks Mahone’s thunderous drumming and held together by Swallow’s commanding stage presence. Picking out wiry melodies on her guitar (plugged in to a weedy looking practice amp), and spitting out wry lyrics about the social networking generation (The Me Song) and infidelity (Fuck My Boyfriend - luckily boyfriend, Sticks Mahone was too busy behind his kit to pay attention to the lyrics), Swallow is a front-person who demands attention and could lead Toy! Toy! to great things.

Predictably, a chaotic set by The Shortwave Set failed to steal their thunder.

By Tom Howard @ Itunes

Post now totally updated with pics and video.

Those in the know will appreciate that a vast array of bands of varying quality descended on drug-addled Camden this weekend for the 2 day rock ‘n’ rave that they call the Camden Crawl. The Irregulars were there. The Irregulars weren’t just there lurking on the fringes of festivities like wet journo auto-erotic aphyxiwankers , we were, as they say, right in the fucking mixer. Now sit back and relax as I recant our odyssey.

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Spotted, liked, linked.

But I failed hard at running a website yesterday. To all who came and saw the site in less than it’s usual resplendent livery, I apologise.

Because we have no TV reception.

I am, apparently, noted for the high quality of the t-shirts I wear. While I do own a few that I’ve picked up from threadless over the years, my main source of t’s these days is the awesome service t-post.se
Every 6(ish) weeks they will send you a t-shirt, nicely wrapped up and delivered to your door (in an envelope that fits through the letterbox). Read more »

Something is awry here. (spotted in upmarket, brick lane, this am)

Throw on that Mark Morrison album that you’ve hidden at the bottom of your wardrobe and sing along with me:

Oh, oo-o-oh, come on, ooh, yeah
Well I tried to tell you so (yes, I did)
But I guess you didn’t know, as I said the story goes
Baby, now I got the flow”

After a period of time that can only be compared to a long sentence in a gulag, I’m back on teh interwebs and I’ve got a whole lot of shit to share with y’all.