I'm only home now..
wow.
amazing.
Sooooooo good. Catch them where you can, and that's coming from me!!!
M
Ps. Check em out on myspace. Proper class.
Larrikin Love
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Larrikin Love
Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:11 am
Can't belive no-one has started a topic on this great band yet?
I'm only home now..
wow.
amazing.
Sooooooo good. Catch them where you can, and that's coming from me!!!
M
Ps. Check em out on myspace. Proper class.
I'm only home now..
wow.
amazing.
Sooooooo good. Catch them where you can, and that's coming from me!!!
M
Ps. Check em out on myspace. Proper class.
I like life.
It gives me something to do.
It gives me something to do.
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:48 am
Totally agree, Walshy.
Larrikin Love are an excellent young band. Their album, The Freedom Spark, would be one of my top albums of the year, and gets loads of play in this house.
And they are great live. The first night at Brixton was the third time I've seen them this year, and they always put on a good show.
And I'm told the singer is incredibly cute. I have this on good information, because he was in the shop where one of me girls works a few weeks back. Swoon.
Larrikin Love are an excellent young band. Their album, The Freedom Spark, would be one of my top albums of the year, and gets loads of play in this house.
And they are great live. The first night at Brixton was the third time I've seen them this year, and they always put on a good show.
And I'm told the singer is incredibly cute. I have this on good information, because he was in the shop where one of me girls works a few weeks back. Swoon.
Likes the warm feeling but is tired of all the dehydration.
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Re: Larrikin Love
Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:22 am
MissWalshy wrote:Can't belive no-one has started a topic on this great band yet?
I have to say i have been listening to them a bit lately.
I remember seeing them on some music programme on channel 4 earlier in the year, and i thought they were quite good.
An Baile Nua Abu !!
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Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:14 pm
Larrikin Love, Brixton Academy, London
By Nick Hasted
29 December 2006
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Edward Larrikin shares the bohemian urchin image and yearning rock sound of The Libertines. But he dreams of "the Big Music", the inclusive vision proclaimed by The Waterboys' Mike Scott in the 1980s, which holds that genres of sound run into each other.
This has seen him participate in "grindie" (the splicing of the UK rap-style grime and indie), as well as taking on some of Scott's own Van Morrison-derived Celtic soul. His band Larrikin Love's debut album, The Freedom Spark, only hints at all this ambition. But he represents a healthy, renewed questing spirit in British pop. In the best sense, he has a hippie mind: unconventional, and dissatisfied.
Faced with the task of warming up an audience, as the support act to The Pogues at a far larger venue than they can yet command themselves, Larrikin Love's intellectual ambitions count for little, but a radical makeover of their album's songs, now played with trombones and fiddles, and uncalculated warmth, endear them to this crowd.
The stray cat rockabilly screech of "Edwould" goes down well, of course, but so does its old Yiddish dance elements. The weird shrieking fiddle and near-gibberish lyrics of "Cucumber" sees a girl in the band square-dancing. By contrast, "Well, Love Does Furnish a Life" is given a dropped-out ska beat, with the trombone as lead instrument. "Ribbon Dance Mews", with its train-track beat and stand-up bass, recalls the 1950s, until its discordant end. In truth, Larrikin's ideas remain partially formed: a freedom spark yet to fully catch light.
Larrikin Love play Frog at Kentish Town Forum, London NW5, on Sunday (020-7284 1001; http://www.larrikinlove.co.uk)
By Nick Hasted
29 December 2006
Independent
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Edward Larrikin shares the bohemian urchin image and yearning rock sound of The Libertines. But he dreams of "the Big Music", the inclusive vision proclaimed by The Waterboys' Mike Scott in the 1980s, which holds that genres of sound run into each other.
This has seen him participate in "grindie" (the splicing of the UK rap-style grime and indie), as well as taking on some of Scott's own Van Morrison-derived Celtic soul. His band Larrikin Love's debut album, The Freedom Spark, only hints at all this ambition. But he represents a healthy, renewed questing spirit in British pop. In the best sense, he has a hippie mind: unconventional, and dissatisfied.
Faced with the task of warming up an audience, as the support act to The Pogues at a far larger venue than they can yet command themselves, Larrikin Love's intellectual ambitions count for little, but a radical makeover of their album's songs, now played with trombones and fiddles, and uncalculated warmth, endear them to this crowd.
The stray cat rockabilly screech of "Edwould" goes down well, of course, but so does its old Yiddish dance elements. The weird shrieking fiddle and near-gibberish lyrics of "Cucumber" sees a girl in the band square-dancing. By contrast, "Well, Love Does Furnish a Life" is given a dropped-out ska beat, with the trombone as lead instrument. "Ribbon Dance Mews", with its train-track beat and stand-up bass, recalls the 1950s, until its discordant end. In truth, Larrikin's ideas remain partially formed: a freedom spark yet to fully catch light.
Larrikin Love play Frog at Kentish Town Forum, London NW5, on Sunday (020-7284 1001; http://www.larrikinlove.co.uk)
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:57 pm
My favourite two also! 
Turns our Edward is a Pogues fan too!! class!
Turns our Edward is a Pogues fan too!! class!
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Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:47 am
-nate- wrote:having checked them out on myspace i'm thinking of buying one of their albums. suggestions?
As far as I know they've released only one album - The Freedom Spark. It's excellent.
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Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:33 am
Dropofpoison wrote:Is it on emusic?
but, "boys and girls in america" by the hold steady IS on emusic. and thers not a pogues fan in the world i wouldnt reccomend that record to.
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trashcity wrote:Dropofpoison wrote:Is it on emusic?
but, "boys and girls in america" by the hold steady IS on emusic. and thers not a pogues fan in the world i wouldnt reccomend that record to.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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Fri May 04, 2007 3:42 pm
Larrikin Love split up
http://www.nme.com/news/larrikin-love/28139
Shame.
Good luck for the future, lads.
http://www.nme.com/news/larrikin-love/28139
Shame.
Good luck for the future, lads.
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Fri May 04, 2007 7:28 pm
oh no! I love Edward Larrikin and his lovely Girlfriend.
Ah well.. Gud luck for the future and all that..
Ah well.. Gud luck for the future and all that..
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It gives me something to do.
It gives me something to do.
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