LIVE REVIEW: COURTNEY BARNETT

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ASSEMBLY HALL
29TH MAY 2014

The Aussie everyone is talking about, Courtney Barnett brought her laid back comical intellectual observations that make up ‘The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas’ to the Islington Assembly Hall last week. Glaswegian duo Honeyblood got us all loosened up with their crunchy pop and despite just the drums, guitar and vox line up their sound was impressively loud.

The witty tales that come form Courtney Barnett are ones that stay with you, and being able to make the listener relate in such a way is special. It’s strange how the band manage to erupt in to psychedelic rock yet get dirty enough to conjure up the likes of Nirvana in places. Theirs elements of David Bowie too and the way Barnett manages to fit so many words in one phrase is just mind boggling. The music is free and sounds so simple yet it is wickedly clever.

We can’t wait to see what she will bring out next. Courtney Barnett is playing Field Day this weekend.

photography by Jon Mo.