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Two sittings of Wildbirds and Peacedrums = win. Can’t go wrong in seeing an awesome band more than once in a day. For those who haven’t heard their stuff, DO! Anyway, onwards to the review

I managed to sneakily use my hour lunch break to head to Farringdon to catch them playing at Pure Groove, I was definitely cutting it thin since I arrived at around 1.30 odd when the show was supposed to start at 1.15pm, Anika kept me informed of the times and whatnot and once there I was able to chillax to their soothing rhythm. They played a fairly simple set at Pure Groove, including Places and My heart, there was a bit where I just looked at Anika’s expression for the entire show, she’s been dying for this day to happen and everything!

I managed to record two videos for this gig, so here’s Places and Doubt/Hope

After the show I managed to tag along with Anika and speak with Mariam about the show and whatnot, she gave them her comics which Mariam said she’ll have framed on a wall (cute!) she quickly introduced herself to me which was ace I was a bit speechless at the time so yeah hehe. I managed to speak to Rich from TLOBF which was nice, there were quite a lot of familiar faces for this show, probably due to Anika’s constant advertising of the band.

Next up was Luminaire, that show completely blew the Pure Groove show, Anika explained that basically it’s a completely different thing when they do a proper live show (with full on set and everything), Mariam gets her hair done and has make up on as well as the fact that they’re not afraid one bit of really attacking those drums with their sticks of the drumming variety. The support Volcano! were fun, especially when the drummer did some bantering during the intervals, one in particular is his note on how he wanted some Soya milk because he was exhausted from drumming like crazy!

We met up with a lot of people we already knew, probably won’t list them but you know who you are *does a universal wink that only certain people will get*. The crowd / Anika went crazy when Wildbirds & Peacedrums finally set foot on stage, they played quite a lot of songs from their latest album The Snake. Here’s a video of them doing There is no light:

They played Chain of Steel, There is No Light, Liar Lion, So Soft, The Window, Places and Doubt/Hope. For the encore Mariam asked the audience whether they wanted an upbeat song or a ballad, we opted for ballad and was graced with My Heart (cue Anika squee’ing)

Afterwards they finished the show with Today/Tomorrow which had the most epic drum pit ever, they were definitely going at it, wish I filmed it and everything too. They came back again and played I can’t tell in his eyes. Boy this gig was simply amazing. We said bai to everyone and went home afterwards. Good times.