Treated to the intimacy of Plush at my recent debut of the Islington Academy- an up-close-and-personal plush experience of crowd participation at its utmost best! With some industry boys around for this showcase, not even being 2 band members under quota could stop these guys!
Alas, Rory and Ben were flying virtually solo as the 2 guitarists got bounced at Heathrow and sent home on the next flight out straight after arriving!!
But with drummer Ben adding just the gravitas that the venue needed, the 2 belted out a bunch of brilliant tracks! With Mann Friday on support the crowd was also well warmed up when they came on! Wonderful evening!
And the next night (26 July) saw South Africa's current Ibiza locals doing a night of their Goldfish toons! Described as amazing in many diff ways by those who went!
And so it was that Friday before Goldfish that it clicked in my head when looking at adorable Ben of Plush and hot blonde Dominique of Goldfish that I realised not only did they look oddly alike in nose and facial structure, but strangely so they even had the same surname...
Hmmmm, coincidence this could be... or not!
Well, connecting South African artists family trees aside (though this could be an interesting exercise to link which families are more musically blessed than others!)
As for other music in August - ooh, we've got some good solid SA rock coming up... Prime Circle, Parlos, Mann Friday and Starseed battling it out at Surface Unsigned (tomorrow night) and then not forgetting the one and only Johnny Clegg at the end of August!
Rock on rock music!
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The Spindle Sect will also be playing in London from the end of Sep
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