Efterklang

Sometime or other, but definitely this year, the Minx was playing some music that I really liked, so I asked who it was.

"It's Efterklang."

She was surprised I'd never heard of them but they were totally new to me. Kind of like a cross between Elbow and Sigur Rós, with perhaps a dash of Balthazar thrown in. Then, a short time after that, when we were coming out of Grub after going to A Lovely Time, I saw a flyer saying they were playing at Gorilla, tonight.

So, obvs, we bought tickets and went across to the venue after work this evening.

I must confess for the first three or four songs, I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to enjoy it. The playing was great, the music was very melodic, but it was rather like Elbow when they are in that somewhat bland, MOR end of what they do. But as the gig progressed, they became more and more bonkers, and the odder it got, the better it got. I ended up having a great time :-)