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All Day Breakfast: The Reviews

added 21 June 2008 at 11.59

Couldn't get tickets for any of today's gigs? Fret not, true believer, as we keep you posted of the gigs as and when they happen. You'd better get comfy because this going to be a long day.

06.00 at The Barfly and it's dark, damp and starting to piss it down, but that's doing nothing to quell the excitement of about 200 indie girls clammering to get into the venue and see One Night Only perform.

Inside and it looks a bit like a mortuary with band members/roadies and friends strewn around the floor in heaps of exhaustion. It soon transpires that the band have not been to bed yet, having played a gig the night before and they're feeling just a little worse for wear. That does little to keep these boys down though and after a cheeky little puke in the Barfly toilets, George Craig and co. take to the stage for the first gig of the day. Cue a wave of hysteria from the female teen contigent (90% of the the crowd) and we're away. Forty minutes later and its been a top start to the Xfm All Day Breakfast with highlights including 'Just For Tonight' and 'It's About Time' which the crowds sung every word to.

Gig over and the band are off to catch a flight to Ibiza. They may only be 18 but these guys have got stamina. Two-and- a-half hours in and it's onto gig number two...

11.00 at The Borderline and the temperature is already at sweltering levels which as good an excuse as any for much of the good natured crowd to get stuck into a variety of liquid breakfasts. And quite right too. Mystery Jets, on the other hand, are just the kind of musical nourishment that's needed right now.

Delivering a set of acoustic loveliness, Mystery Jets soon have the fans eating out of their hands as 'Umbrellahead' and 'Young Love' land a one-two while the sucker punch of 'Two Doors Down' create an atmosphere of bonhomie usually unimagineable at this time of the morning.

12.30: One man. One guitar. One laptop. This can only mean one thing - Southend troubadour Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - that's Sam Duckworth to his mum - is bringing his unique brand of folktronica to a rammed The Fly on New Oxford Street. Jovial and in high spirits, Duckworth soon turns his set into a request show with old favourites 'War Of The Worlds' and 'Lighthouse Keeper' scoring particularly well among his devotees.

15.00: It's been said that you should never trust a band that doesn't sweat. That being the case, the amount of faith handed over to Paul Weller at KoKo is colossal and somewhat justified. Dipping - and indeed, dripping - liberally into his new album, '22 Dreams', the Queen Mum of Britpop, Gawd bless 'im, is still burning with a passion that belies his years. 'Echoes Round The Sun' is a psychedelic delight while 'Push It Along' merely confirms the Modfather's continued ability to belt them out with the best of 'em. Nothing though, compares to the feverish response that greets a frenzied 'Eton Rifles' that sees Weller reclaim it from those who recently misappropriated it. Cappuccinos all round, then!

18.00: An earlier power cut at ULU may have threatened to curtail Feeder's set, but the resolve of the overworked technicians ensures that the set goes on as planned. And just as well otherwise we'd have missed this excellent performance. Augmented by an additional guitarist and keyboardist, Feeder sound absolutely gigantic this evening. Old favourites 'Come Back Around', 'Just The Way I'm Feeling' and 'Shatter' blend seemlessly with the offerings from new album 'Silent Cry'. 'We Are The People' is especially fierce and goes to show that Feeder still have much to offer.

21.00: The beautiful and intimate environs of Islington's Union Chapel has clearly had an effect on Guillemots. While their new album, 'Red', has divided opinion among critics and fans alike, tonight's performance sees the band deliver a set of quite staggering beauty and hushed reverences that matches the setting around them. Re-arranging their material into things of delicate fragility, the songs become soft whispers with 'Get Over It' being a particular delight.

00.00: Cometh the midnight hour cometh the band as Primal Scream drop a vintage performance at 229. Tearing into new single, 'Can't Go Back', the Scream then go on to give more than a sneaky peek of forthcoming albm, 'Beautiful Future'. Whereas the their ninth studio album glistens with a pop sheen, live the material positively rocks. 'Suicide Bomb' reveals dirt beneath its finger nails while 'Uptown' finds bassist Mani mining the kind of funky groove not heard since The Stone Roses' 'Fools Gold'. As good as they new material is, it's Primal Scream's back catalogue that finally detonates the veue. 'Accelerator', 'Shoot Speed Kill Light' and 'Swastika Eyes' are dispatched with a sense of shock and awe. 'Rocks' and 'Movin' On Up' shifts the party to a different level altogether and a rare outing for 'I'm Losing More Then I'll Ever Have' (the song that was remixed into 'Loaded') sends the purists into raptures. Quality stuff.

03.00: One last push and the night is ours. The last remaining hardy souls who venture to the 100 Club at this late hour are treated to Young Knives' angular quirkiness. What becomes quickly apparant is just how many top notch gems this trio has at its disposal as 'Terra Firma', 'Dyed In The Wool' and 'She's Attracted To' draw the biggest whoops and hollers while 'Up All Night' takes on a fiendish poignancy.

Were you at the Xfm All Day Breakfast? Let us know what the highlight of your day was by leaving your comments below.

Tagged as The Mystery Jets, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Paul Weller, Feeder, Guillemots, Primal Scream, The Young Knives, One Night Only, Live

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