Chippy Gang #4

Last friday evening, I ventured up to The Enterprise @ Chalk Farm. The occassion was Claire‘s brother Eric playing a set for this month’s Chippy Gang.
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the chippy gang is a night of good music and company run by a group of young london bands

Getting there was a chore thanks to signal failure taking out practically the entire Northern Line. Sigh :( Initials DC was first in the line up, playing about 7 or 8 songs in a mixture of english & french – sadly no esperanto though! Its hard to fit his sound into any one category – its a mix of electronic pop & indie guitar sounds – but it certainly sounded good. Next up was SeRGE, two more french guys with a very similar style to Initials DC – not surprising really, since they used to all be in the same group. Whether delibrate or not, I don’t know, but Jerome was doing a good part as a modern day Andy Warhol lookalike.

The third band of the night (no clue what they were called) had evidently gotten themselves confused as to the difference between ‘Good’ and ‘Loud’. Five guys, 3 playing lead guitar, one bass guitar and one drummer, just churned out mindless loud guitar noise. Their sound would have been vastly improved if they merely axed two of the lead guitarists (only one of them was any good anyway). After a handful of their songs, we bailed to the bar downstairs, a unique & characterful irish pub – a large bar in the center of room, sofas / chairs / large & small tables around the edge of the room. Don’t be put off by the coloured stripes for the paint job outside – its really a very nice atmosphere. I don’t remember much of the last band of the evening, but they put in a solid performance, making 3 out of 4 successes for the evening. Not too shabby, by anyone’s standards.

The next Chippy Gang is Friday 25th July….