The Long Blondes just came through Toronto on their month-long North American tour. Notes:
- “Swallow Tattoo” followed by “Separated by Motorways”? Best. encore. ever.
- I can’t decide whether I like the actual intro to “Fulwood Babylon,” “People think I’m being/perverse on purpose,” or what I thought I heard during the show: “People think I’m weird/but that’s on purpose.” How ’bout we call that one a draw?
- I was walking out with a gaggle of girls who seemed relatively unfamiliar with the Long Blondes, but all they were saying to each other was how it was the funnest show they’d been to in ages. I completely fucking agree.
- I hear Kate Jackson and company might be returning to North America in September. PLEASE COME BACK TO TORONTO.
Between Land of Talk, the Pipettes and the Long Blondes, the beginning of June has been very good to me concert-wise. I don’t see how the rest of the summer could possibly top this.