Rebel Grrrl!!!

Kate Nash LIVE!

Some weeks ago now Jaz was invited to Kate Nash's first gig in two years. As previously reported on BOOMerangKid, the once nerdy mockney rhymer has abandoned whatever it is that made her famous in the first place for a more rebellious image. And you can't help but wonder why. Like Lily Allen ditching prom dresses and trainers for Chanel - it doesn't matter how much elegance she feigns, we will never forget that she's actually a chav with a mouth on her like a schoolkid from South Park. It just doesn't convince. Never much of a fan of Kate Nash Mk I, Jaz is left a little unsure as to whether Kate Nash Mk II is a career killer or a vast improvement...

“I don’t know if I can still play but fuck it!” she shrieks to signal the start of a rather different set, featuring mostly unheard material.  If her recent participation in a band called The Receeders isn’t enough of a giveaway, her abrasive yelping on new material from a forthcoming sophomore release confirms that it’s goodbye cutesy ditties, hello riot-grrrl punk. That would at least explain the bold ditching of floral prints for a monochrome bat-winged uniform together with Lego Man bob and lashing of Hollywood red lipstick. It just screams (or rather, shrills) Karen O – and, less fortunately at times, The Exorcist’s Linda Blair.

For the full rambunctious review, head over to The List magazine's website:
http://www.list.co.uk/article/24405-kate-nash/

For more pics from the gig get yourselves Flickr-ing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/boomerangkid/sets/72157623453634765/

Jaz x x

Happy Sunday! Grovel Grovel...

Jaz awoke to mild panic that we'd forgotten Mother's Day among all the past week's gig overload this morning. Alas, it's not til next week so we have some time for ample fishy preparation. But cue our apology to all you wonderful blogees for the slower week that's just passed. There is much to make up for it in store: Groove Armada, Mumford & Sons, Local Natives... In addition, Jaz was invited to watch Kate Nash's first gig in two years last night. The review is pending publication and will be with you very soon :) And if that wasn't enough, we'll be chatting to those cheery Editors blokes in Glasgow this week. If only time would stop for just five minutes...

On that note, we leave you with a modern classic: Stillness Is The Move by Dirty Projectors from last year's Bitte Orca. Absolutely sublime - even Beyonce's sister Solange is a fan...



Jaz x

Girl Gone Wild

When Jaz notices a Lego-haired red-head in leggings and an inadequately long T-shirt at an event six months ago, it takes the best part of the entire evening to work out who she is. Is she someone from a previous job? Is she an old uni acquaintance? As The Cribs' Ryan Jarman enters clutching his girlfriend's waist, Jaz enquires dumbstruck: "It can't be?! The one that's so "bitt-a" cos she sucks too many lemons?! She used to be so smiley... and floral." It was a preview for what's to come in the world of Kate Nash. Goodbye cutesy cockney ditties about make-up, Hello minimal lyrics and riot-grrrl punk.

The as-yet-unreleased second album Crayon Full Of Colour is chronically titled but intriguingly produced by ex-Suede man Bernard Butler. Taken from it, the screechy razor-edged guitars and still screechier blood-stirring shrills of I Just Love You More owe less to her boyfriend's band and more to a certain collective from across the pond. The track is in the identical vein of the far superior be-bobbed, and Most Exalted Goddess of all things alternative, Karen O. Having heard little else of the album yet, Jaz is reluctant to comment overall but would suggest you just dig out last year's Yeah Yeah Yeahs' effort It's Blitz which was a no-brainer for our Best Of 2009 list and sets the standard probably far too high for such aspiring female art-rockers.



Jaz x