cheek by jowl & hand in glove.

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Monday night The [A] TEAM gazoogled away to The Enterprise, Chalk Farm to hear Kid Harpoon and his supporting act Josh Weller. Although tonight wasn't officially part of Kid's tour, it was a chance for him to showcase a few of his new songs in preparation for the release of his single Stealing Cars, coming out 20th July.

Josh Weller was unknown to us before tonight but, my oh my, we liked a bit of him - from his Marge Simpson-esque hair to his painted skeleton hand - he was as enthusiastic as a child with an ice lolly to bosh and bash his drum, scattering glitter everywhere. Yeah, he verged on the twee indie with a vocal-driven performance but the undulations of his songs, swinging from very soft, almost folk, to a mad, ska-like deliverance made him more engaging. His single Push is out now on Yodel.

Kid Harpoon revelled in his show; sodding encores in favour of just continuing to play until he'd completely sweated out. 

I found him sexy...something about his gold earring and cheeky blue eyes grabbed me. There were other raving groupies, embarrassingly drunk ladies who clogged up the front and knocked over his microphone stand; but our composed if excitable selves were given a jam-packed set list, played with a kind of vigour that caused the giggers, that were, until then merely nodding in approval, to shake the room. 

the aftermath of when a particularly drunk groupie knocked over his microphone stand.

However, we weren't completely blown away to become fully fledged, t-shirt wearing Kid Harpoon-ers because his digression to playing the piano just came out all wrong; the cheek in his blue eyes turned to a kind of cockiness that he could play anything on the piano and the females would swoon. Once back, guitar-clad, his rendition of his old haunt burning down caught our attention, after he'd ranted too much about roses. 

Byesies.

.x.