It may feel like you’re living in the Arctic Circle every time you step outside your home, and the lure of Christmas may be drawing ever closer but Birmingham based Goodnight Lenin are the perfect cure to any Winter blues.
The basement of The Crumblin’ Cookie might be small, but its cosiness is perfect for tonight’s gig. First onstage is local lass Nancy Dawkins who nervously plucks away at her acoustic guitar accompanying it with her nervous yet fierce voice which carries a wiseness beyond her years and is reminiscent of Rumer.
Suspicious Monkey is right up there in terms of terrible band names and I wish I could say that the music redeemed this factor slightly, but then I’d be lying to you. Tim Minchin; if you’re reading this, please never ever join Mumford & Sons with Noel Fielding – it won’t end well, trust me.
Support bands aside, Goodnight Lenin take to the stage later than expected but as soon as they launch into their first opening harmonies, all is forgiven and the depth and warmth in the emotion of the songs they carry melts away any last remaining memories of the cold outside.
Listening to Goodnight Lenin it’s perfectly understandable why they were support band of choice for Dry The River. ‘Edward Colby’ the painstaking fictional ode to a real man from the bands childhood is met with rapturous applause and even the odd tear falling from the eyes of their rapt audience.
The gig provides plenty of goose bump moments as the stage set up changes from song to song with instruments being swapped and donned between members it’s a refreshing sight to behold in a day where bands line ups tend to be set and rigid with no changes whatsoever.
The aforementioned comparison to Fleet Foxes is felt throughout the entire set but Goodnight Lenin seem more connected to their audience than the American band could ever hope to be. It’s a crying shame that a band as good as this don’t have nearly as much recognition as they clearly deserve but at the same time the fact that not many people know who they are allows audience members to feel more connected to the heartfelt messages contained in the lyrics.
Written by - Rachael Scarsbrook
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The basement of The Crumblin’ Cookie might be small, but its cosiness is perfect for tonight’s gig. First onstage is local lass Nancy Dawkins who nervously plucks away at her acoustic guitar accompanying it with her nervous yet fierce voice which carries a wiseness beyond her years and is reminiscent of Rumer.
Suspicious Monkey is right up there in terms of terrible band names and I wish I could say that the music redeemed this factor slightly, but then I’d be lying to you. Tim Minchin; if you’re reading this, please never ever join Mumford & Sons with Noel Fielding – it won’t end well, trust me.
Support bands aside, Goodnight Lenin take to the stage later than expected but as soon as they launch into their first opening harmonies, all is forgiven and the depth and warmth in the emotion of the songs they carry melts away any last remaining memories of the cold outside.
Listening to Goodnight Lenin it’s perfectly understandable why they were support band of choice for Dry The River. ‘Edward Colby’ the painstaking fictional ode to a real man from the bands childhood is met with rapturous applause and even the odd tear falling from the eyes of their rapt audience.
The gig provides plenty of goose bump moments as the stage set up changes from song to song with instruments being swapped and donned between members it’s a refreshing sight to behold in a day where bands line ups tend to be set and rigid with no changes whatsoever.
The aforementioned comparison to Fleet Foxes is felt throughout the entire set but Goodnight Lenin seem more connected to their audience than the American band could ever hope to be. It’s a crying shame that a band as good as this don’t have nearly as much recognition as they clearly deserve but at the same time the fact that not many people know who they are allows audience members to feel more connected to the heartfelt messages contained in the lyrics.
Written by - Rachael Scarsbrook
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