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by Sarah

Amazing gig!!! I saw THE TAMBORINES for the first time that night and fell in love with them.
Great set!
It started with a lovely clean guitar and piano based song and ended with a fuzzy distorted sound. Magic!
I managed to get a copy of their promo EP 'It just makes sense when I'm high'. It includes 'Sally O'Gannon' which was the highlight of their set.
I can't wait to see what they are doing next.

  • The Tamborines 10 / 10
Words: Sarah

cool review

I just saw a very cool review by 'Kitten Painting' on the tamborines myspace. I must say that it is much better than mine...

"So I got sent The Tamborines single last week (see review) and its great, cute, woozy, Byrdsy fizzing pop stuff, just the kind of thing Im a sucker for. Its good enough to make me come out in the cold with a sore foot and limp my way to Kings Cross to see just what these Tamborines johnnies are all about. Theyre playing at an ACR30 night , which is a sort of shoey/post-rocky drifty fuzz-songs club. Fair enough. (...) But cheer up! Now its time for The Tamborines and they turn out to be just perfect. That record of theirs is an engaging little fella, but live theyre a wonderous proposition, three of them making delicious buzzed up pop. All it takes is a boy with a drifting teenage-ennui filled voice and a fuzzing cherry-red semi-acoustic, a bob-head leather-clad girl on spacey cranky Korg blips and dizzy organ wooglings, and a skinny girl bashing out booming drumbeats. Pure sonic rush. They name-check Joel Gion, Wim Wenders, Vox, Super 8, Love, Younger Than Yesterday, Danelectro, Sonic Flower Groove. They look great, they sound divine and theyre called Lulu, Veronique and Henrz. Im hooked. My first thought is that they remind me of The Primitives when the Prims was good and when Cool Paul Court sang, like on Laughing Up My Sleeve - simple, fizzing tunes that make you go, Oh yeah! When they play single What Took You So Long they manage to out-Love The Loves, with a fuzzpop blast of fringe-shaking sonic gorgeousness. B-side The Great Division sounds sky high and wide eyed, spaced out wonderful. They play the utterly pop-perfect Sally OGannon with enormous thumping drums, speed-fuzz guitar and korg seagull noises as bob-girl kicks into Zea McCabe mode, lazily shaking a tambourine with nonchalant disinterest. Their final song offers a cute nod to wooshing Stereolab dronery with plinking organ and an almighty spazz out of guitar, ending with it thrown buzzing to the ground. This is POP!" www.kittenpainting.co.uk