The Bar Academy is one of Birmingham's more intimate venues and even on a good night you'd be lucky to find more than a hundred people squashed into its compact area.
Maybe it was the short notice that the tour was arranged at, or perhaps the presence of the infinitely more popular Kooks next door but a small crowd was present to watch The Envy Corps on their first proper date of the tour.
Yet again Miss Peapods thankfully managed to bring in an interesting bunch of musicians who together put on a dazzling array of glittery messed up electronics.
A Hawk And A Hacksaw played the last of their two shows at Miss Peapod's in Penryn, Falmouth last night, and were clearly in the mood for some fun.
Blood Red Shoes have come on leaps and bounds over the past year. It's easy to pigeon-hole Blood Red Shoes as a White Stripes reversal.
The human body is an instrument, many people will tell you. Foxy Shazam take this literally and decide to utilise both the human keyboard and the human cymbal.
Rather aptly, "The Parish" is possibly the reddest venue throughout all of the 80+ South by South-West official establishments. Red also represents passion, danger, anger and lust. All four of these were also present tonight.
Having only just reviewed one of The Donnas live shows on British soil last year, it seemed a wee bit unnecessary to be doing it again, but their fast, friendly and fun show - on home soil as well - proved to be too tempting to resist.
Is it better to enter a show with high expectations and to have them met, or is it better to go in with no expectations and to have them resoundingly blown out of the water? Such is the question that has plagued mankind for at least five minutes or so.
Having been handed the performance baton by Los Campesinos, The Stills have a crowd that is thoroughly hyped up and ready for what may be their final band of SxSW 2008.
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