Last night we went to see The XX. I have discovered that young band earlier this year, so I kept a sharp lookout for the tickets for their performance.

The venue was the Somerset House, our quite favorite one as a matter of fact, as we’ve been to a few event from their summer series before. It’s a central London, open-air, nice place, good sound and good crowd. What else would you need?

The gig was everything you would expect from The XX. Chilled, down tempo (with rare chances for the audience to perform short dance sequences), quite melancholic, with hypnotizing sound of guitar and their own voices. At some point I was even wondering, if they were playing the same song over and over again :) but actually I did not mind it. A simple and honest music with a lot of bass. And when I say ‘a lot’, I mean it. I remember the only time my neighbor called me on the phone and asked me to turn my music down when I was playing The XX. It wasn’t even loud. ‘It’s just the bass…’ he said.

So, great night overall, and the gig’s ending was quite a highlight – a sudden outburst of sound, energy and emotions. I loved it.

Posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 2:19 pm under Creative, General, London.
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