{"id":10353,"date":"2011-04-08T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2011-04-13T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:11:03","slug":"singing-adams-deer-park-the-doublecross-10-feet-tall-cardiff-10-04-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/singing-adams-deer-park-the-doublecross-10-feet-tall-cardiff-10-04-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing Adams \/ Deer Park \/ The Doublecross : 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff : 10.04.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Broken Family Band’s decision to call it a day in 2009 after eight years and seven releases was a sad, bittersweet one.\u00a0 Happy with their achievements and mindful of losing the fun by plugging away to diminishing returns, the amicable retirement allowed for some fittingly reflective, funny and cheeky farewell shows and a run-out for some back catalogue favourites.\u00a0 In particular, a lump-in-the-throat, tear-in-the-beer set at End of the Road and a closing night slot at Swn\u00a0will live\u00a0long in the memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Songwriter Steven Adams, happily, had no intention of stopping outright.\u00a0 Returning to the alter-ego under which he released 2006’s slept-on, low-key solo gem Problems <\/em>he dropped the definite article, recruited a band and wrote the songs which now form the first SINGING ADAMS record Everybody Friends Now<\/em>.\u00a0 Retaining the eye for a tune, the acerbic tongue and unnerving ability to convey personal, affecting words while avoiding any hint of mawkishness, the excerpts placed online so far suggest a continuation of the more streamlined indie-rock of later BFB albums stripped of some of the anglicised alt-country of their earlier work.\u00a0 The band, recruited from Absentee and Saloon among others, carried off an initially tentative lunchtime main stage set at last year’s Green Man with ease, and Adams continues to be one of those effortless songwriters who makes you wonder how so many others get it so horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

DEER PARK are favourites of the fine folk at Diverse and Gathered In Song, and with good reason.\u00a0 They’re a band for whom name-dropping comparisons are a benefit, rather than a hindrance, which bodes well for lazy gets like myself; raucous alt-country with an emphasis on the alt-, think Replacements\/Camper Van Beethoven folky thrash, Okkervil River erudition and Willy Vlautin’s storyteller’s pen.\u00a0 Jon Greenwood of THE DOUBLECROSS adds an opening acoustic set – think Nebraska<\/em>, the downbeat Lemonheads songs and a shade of pent-up Promise Ring emo.<\/p>\n

Me and Matthew Jarrett are DJing too, apparently.\u00a0 Don’t let that stop you taking a smoking break.<\/p>\n

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SINGING ADAMS (ex Broken Family Band)<\/p>\n

DEER PARK<\/p>\n

THE DOUBLECROSS (acoustic)<\/p>\n

& Joy Collective\/Diverse Music DJs<\/p>\n

Sunday 10th<\/sup> April 7.30pm<\/p>\n

10 Feet Tall, Church Street, Cardiff<\/p>\n

\u00a36 adv \/ \u00a37 door http:\/\/www.wegottickets.com\/event\/109661<\/a><\/p>\n

Featuring former singer of THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND Steven Adams, SINGING ADAMS are just about to release their debut album \u2018Everybody Friends Now\u2019 on Records Records Records.<\/p>\n

Still retaining the sharp wit that earned Adams his reputation as one of the finest lyricists and songwriters of recent times, mixed with optimistic indie, folk and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll sounds \u2013 this show is not to be missed!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thesingingadams<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/deerpark<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/doublecrossmusic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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