Oxjam

Just got back from Kilburn with Toys With Knives. I'm a little bit drunk right now... Free cider all night! Anyway, we were the second band on at the Powers bar, which meant we could spend our time in the "green room" at the back of the pub, available only to artists.

The only downer of the night was the timing of the overground trains from Brondesbury to Richmond, which meant we didn't have time to see Spring Offensive (who we'd previously seen at The Hobgoblin in Staines earlier this year). I guess we're going to have to wait for them to tour London again, which isn't looking like it's going to be soon.

On the bright side, we made a few new friends, did some great work for charity and got loads of free stuff that we wouldn't usually get at a free gig like this.

Highlight of the night definitely has to be Phantom, a two piece band consisting of a guitarist who sings with a guitar through a vocoder and a drummer who also acts as a middle man between the band and their sampler. Really surreal sound, kinda like a mid-point between Chromeo and ELO.

Although in my eyes, Toys With Knives is a joke, I'm going to milk it for what it's worth. Which should mean some kind of EP release and maybe a short tour to promote it. We usually play venues in the Shoreditch area, but recently we've been branching out to North London, and I don't think it's half as bad as people make it out to be!