{"id":7011,"date":"2010-05-08T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2010-05-18T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:41:38","slug":"double-dagger-friendship-saturdays-kids-cardiff-arts-institute-17-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/preview\/double-dagger-friendship-saturdays-kids-cardiff-arts-institute-17-05-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Dagger \/ Friendship \/ Saturday&#8217;s Kids : Cardiff Arts Institute : 17.05.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollectivewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/double-dagger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7012\" title=\"double dagger\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollectivewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/double-dagger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/double-dagger.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/double-dagger-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More impossible-to-deny goodness at the CAI, herein bringing you DOUBLE DAGGER, a no-messing Baltimore trio (vocals, drums, deafening bass noise) who come on like a mix of post-punk attitude (chippy art-school lyricism), neolithic metal simplicity (monstrous riffs) and straightforward punk sass (yearning, melodic tunefulness).\u00a0 Plus, that press shot up there is <em>adorable<\/em>.\u00a0 Three albums in (the latest, More, released last year on Thrill Jockey &#8211; a curveball choice in itself) without a whole lot of deviation from their template, this should be a heap of noisy fun.<\/p>\n<p>Tour support comes from London duo FRIENDSHIP, last seen around this way playing to a wholly disinterested post-midnight crowd in Buffalo a while back.\u00a0 They deserved better.\u00a0 A basic\u00a0 set-up subverted by unlikely and insidiously catchy afrobeat guitar and some almost electropop choruses, it&#8217;d be easy to cry hipster (fair dos, I think I did last time) but this is pretty great stuff y&#8217;know.\u00a0 Opening up are increasingly splendid locals SATURDAY&#8217;S KIDS, whose slow-creeping hardcore we&#8217;ve written about <a title=\"once\" href=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/meze-festival-shitty-limits-the-sick-livers-saturdays-kids-meze-lounge-newport-11-10-09\/\">once<\/a> or <a title=\"twice\" href=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/lovvers-harbour-islet-saturdays-kids-buffalo-bar-cardiff-24-09-09\/\">twice<\/a> before and who&#8217;ve latterly released a tasty-looking split LP with \u00c9variste Galois.\u00a0 Three top turns for free, the ideal way to get those post-ATP blues banished.<\/p>\n<p>DOUBLE DAGGER <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/doubledaggersucks\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/doubledaggersucks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FRIENDSHIP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thegoodfriendship\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thegoodfriendship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SATURDAY\u2019S KIDS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thesaturdayskidsuk\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thesaturdayskidsuk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8pm \/ FREE ENTRY<\/p>\n<p>Using deceptively simple instrumentation (bass, drums, vocals), Baltimore trio Double Dagger make a cacophonous wall of sound that has been occasionally described as \u2018very loud\u2019 or \u2018angry\u2019 pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More impossible-to-deny goodness at the CAI, herein bringing you DOUBLE DAGGER, a no-messing Baltimore trio (vocals, drums, deafening bass noise) who come on like a mix of post-punk attitude (chippy art-school lyricism), neolithic metal simplicity (monstrous riffs) and straightforward punk sass (yearning, melodic tunefulness).\u00a0 Plus, that press shot up there is adorable.\u00a0 Three albums in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[971,1245,1246,1247,593],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview","tag-cardiff-arts-institute","tag-double-dagger","tag-friendship","tag-kittencore","tag-saturdays-kids"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}