Love of Diagrams, The Laurels, Circle Pit

1-12-11 – FBi Social
A very good night of music put on by Radiant at FBi Social. These are the three i caught most of and each was better than the last (sorry circle Pit). Circle Pit started it off for me with a nice stripped back set. Between each song they seemed to stop for more than i thought was normal… then i saw that they were actually explaining how to play the next song to what must have been a ring-in drummer. Rather than being frustrating it actually made the set more fun for me, maybe i’m just weird. Even though they probably were not at their best the set was enough for me to now be keen to catch them again at full strength in the near future (hopefully near!). After the start-stop set from Cricel Pitt, The Laruels just blew me away but it wasn’t too much of a surprise. They’re just always a force of nature on the stage and no recording that i have listened to has ever really managed to captured this. 
When Love of Diagrams first started playing i was a little underwhelemed, i don’t know why but it just deflated me- but by the second song it was a complete turn around! I loved their set and cute banter, it’s great to see a true live band discuss what song to play next as the show goes on.

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