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  • Fri Feb 2 2007
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  • Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, London, W12 7LJ
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  • By Chris Parkin

    Posted: Mon Jan 29 2007

  • Unusually for a touted band, Fireworks Night aren’t part of any new fad or fashion trend. In fact, they’re distinctly untrendy, clad as they are in standard Oxbridge graduate mufti and crafting seriously grown-up music. We don’t mean they’re dull like, say, The Zutons. Just that they seem to have an innate, weary melancholy that means slow-burning, noir-ish tragi-folk infused with the drama of Brel, bluegrass and gypsy traditions, is the only kind of music this six-piece were ever going to play. It suits James Lesslie’s (also in long-standing Time Out faves The Mules) deep voice – a little like Neil Hannon without the frilly bits – as he delivers his reflective lines. Tonight they’ll be previewing upcoming second album ‘As Fools We Are’ (out on April 30) in the suitably elegant Bush Hall. To get in the mood, check out their ‘When We Fell Through Ice’ single on myspace.com/fireworksnight.

    The other bands on this ‘Buzz Night’ bill – who are all equally old before their time – are London’s slow rockin’ Americana boys The Tailors, who run the fine Sadder Days club at The Windmill in Brixton and here plug their forthcoming debut ‘Wakey Wakey’ (Trash Aesthetics); The Mules’ Ed Seed and the gruff talents of North London’s Tom Mansi And The Icebreakers whose jazz- and funk-grazed old-porch blues and Beefheart psychedelia should set the scene from the off.
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  • Bush Hall,310 Uxbridge Rd, London, W12 7LJ
    , UK
    Geo: 51.506565, -0.231544
  • 020 8222 6933
  • Category: Rock, pop & dance
  • Times: 7.30pm
  • Price: £5
  • Tube: Goldhawk Road

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