I made the teatime error of falling asleep on the sofa for about an hour, which was probably a good way to perk myself up. Once I woke up I hadn't a lot of time, so I made two cups of tea and had a hot shower to wake myself up. Things weren't going entirely to plan on their side either, so I needn't have worried about missing anything. Steve McGill had just started when I got there, I've said before how there are too many of this type; a man and a guitar, but Steve was amazing. He's been played on my radio shows for quite a while now, so meeting people and putting faces to names is always good. During his set, Steve sang a song that was a pastiche of a Bob Dylan song. If there's one thing the Nottingham music scene has taught us, it is that being able to pastiche Bob Dylan is all you really need, and then you'll end up on Later With Jools Holland, BBC 6Music, and get to headline Splendour. I fully expect that pattern to happen to Steve McGill now, and if he doesn't become a big star then he will be able to report someone for discrimination; we can't have one rule for one singer who can pastiche Dylan, and one rule for another. Steve has got just one song in that vein though, and is actually a highly original and talented songwriter, not just a Dylan copyist.
Magdalla played a blinding second support slot, they are a three piece pop-punk type outfit who I knew very little about initially. The venue, (Lacehouse) still wasn't filling up. There was a respectable crowd for a Tuesday night, but it could have been better. The gig was one of Nusic's gigs of the week, and I didn't see anyone of them around, or anyone from Leftlion, or the EG supplement in The Nottingham Evening Post, (as I still call it). The whole of the Nottingham music media was compressed into one person, me. This makes me better than EG, Leftlion, and Nusic, is it any wonder that I'm known locally as 'Nottingham's Mr Radio'? I know I don't get to every gig going, but this was Prefontaine's first gig in a long time and if I hadn't have gone there would have been no support at all.
Although there were a few nerves, Prefontaine played a great set that thankfully was recorded on video, possibly for the benefit of all those who couldn't be bothered risking the slight fog?
Prefontaine play alongside another one of my tips next month, The Ctrl, and play live on NottinghamLIVE on Wednesday 13th March on Trent Sound.
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