
On the 27th April 2009, late in the afternoon & dangerously close to sound check, the fantastic Sons Of Noel & Adrian popped into the TWR-partnered recording studios (Offshore Music) here in Cardiff & effortlessly knocked out 3 brilliant tracks.
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On Easter Sunday, 12th April 2009, Liz Hunt’s excellent Loose Music Club held an all-day festival at the Buffalo Bar in Cardiff. Topping an excellently curated bill that day were the superb The Wave Pictures — a band ½DC has liked for quite some time. An interview, then, had had to be got, & got, by God, it was.
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Back on 13th April 2009 ½DC dragged TWoTH & a handful of friends along to the Buffalo Bar (in Cardiff) to see the audience dividing Trembling Bells. Part of their ill-timed first tour proper (their debut album was being released the week after they came off the road), their gig in Cardiff was quite something — a lot harder than on record, more experimental & sounding strangely more together. Even TWoTH was won over by their excellent energy & set.
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During the last day (19th April 2009) of the Fence (Records) Collective Homegame 6 Alt.Folk Music festival in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, ½DC + TWoTH met up with the deliciously lovely Diana de Cabarrus otherwise known as Candythief. & what a joy she was too.
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Between 17th & 19th April 2009 the Fence (Records) Collective hosted the Homegame 6 Alt.Folk Music festival in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland. ½DC + TWoTH, leaving at stupid o’clock from Cardiff Int. Airport, zipped up to Edinburgh to meet up with Mr. Toad & Co. from off of that musi-blag Song, by Toad, before hopping across to Anstruther, on a rickety bus no less, in readiness for a long weekend of alt.folk loveliness.
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