Tuesday 27th May
£9 Advance
Mean Fiddler presents Vetiver plus Special Guests
Vetiver is named for an aromatic East Indian grass that grows in
California, and their music delivers on the sunny, hazy sweetness the
band's name suggests. Singer Andy Cabic has --with some help from
Devendra Banhart-- written a set of songs that at their best are
strange, subdued and otherworldly, a quality you can't fake... Cabic's voice lures you in, like a less showy Jeff Buckley, and the rest of the songs unfold like a dream. There's the rapturous "Without a Song" (with a tapping-break in the middle that's unlike anything I've heard), the jaunty "Farther On," and the complex epics that make up the album's last half, with a detour for the goofy "Amour Fou" (co-written with Banhart).
This is folk music that combines the ghostly power of scratchy blues 78s with the epic swirl of My Bloody Valentine or Mazzy Star, and live the group recreate the songs with such seamless beauty the LA Times said, ‘Do not, repeat DO NOT, miss Vetiver… Extraordinary.’
07:00 PM
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