I’ll Be Your Mirror returned to northernmost London reach, boasting a quintessentially outré rundown which took in everything from thrash metal heralds (Slayer), sludge pukers (Sleep), sadcore progenitors (Codeine) and cutesy pop pairings (Tennis and to a substantially lesser degree, the Tall Firs). To quote pretty much every bloody band on the bill, “Thanks Barry; Deborah.” For finer weekends may now be few and far between…
Review: Friday, 25th May / Saturday, 26th May / Sunday, 27th May.
Gallery: Friday, 25th May / Saturday, 26th May / Sunday, 27th May.
‘There was one time when we played to two people in L.A. and we were there thinking: “Why, the fuck, are we in L.A.?” Like this is so lame. That was rock-bottom. Aaron got food poisoning the night before, and then we got to this place in Chinatown and they were like: “The club’s just upstairs.” There were literally two fucking people. All the other bands cancelled, we got put on too soon, and then to compound the night as we were walking out the other three people who were wanting to see us walked in. And at the same time there’s the financial end of it in that our money would’ve been safer in a pile, on fire, than it would’ve been spent on us being there.’
In between days playing Jeff Mangum’s ATP and headlining The Garage, Dots & Dashes caught up with Brooklyn pairing Tall Firs to talk reviews, recording, and those crooked Thurston Moore parallels…
‘That Brooklyn-based duo Tall Firs – comprised of Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan – look as though birthed from the same progenitors, sing with the same whisky-soaked baritone, tote similar Fenders and play said things through a solitary amp elucidates quite wondrously how they’ve managed to construct a record that’s quite so singular in third and latest full-length, Out Of It And Into It.’
Dots & Dashes review Tall Firs’ latest, out now on ATP Recordings…
