Clap your hands say yeah.
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One of the highlights for me this year at Leeds outside of the company, however that is a big thing, they are tried and tested thankfully, Teago has been to 6 festivals with me, Essex, (I don't want to big him up as he is quite a modest man, but Paul Essex is a prince amongst gentlemen, excellent company any time of the day and if you have the opportunity to spend time with him, please do) and the rest we were with at Download and little legs, the shortened version of a wife is used to my tantrums, outside of these people that will make any festival enjoyable, Clap your hands say yeah are appearing. I have liked this band for some time and continue to love them and the album, Leeds will see them in a tent and unsure just who they are clashing with but that doesn't matter, it will be them for PeterD at the expense of anyone.
I know they are derivative, and I think that is part of their attraction, where for other bands it can be a bit of a criticism, basically because I don’t think they pull it off too well, but if you wear your talking heads influences so openly, well I think that is a great reference point, a better reference point than trying to copy their peers.
My only criticism of the band is I think they need to concentrate more on the new material, Alec Ounsworth has a lot of material already wrote, he was a solo artists and CYHSY was merely a receptacle for that, his older unrecorded stuff is great, the new material being played on tour at the moment is not as good as anything on the album. I hope those older tunes get trotted out soon or I fear that their star will fade as quickly as it shone.
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