Tin Pan Alley - Rocklouder Review

They like us they do.

Rocklouder TPA Feature

"As the day progresses we shift from pokerfaces to utter mysteries. When Bolt Action Five come to entertain us a double take has to be made. Dan (vox) looks like a child with a bowl-cut and an oversized (borrowed) green jumper, while Tobias (guitar) looks like a new rave cave man – complemented by drainpipes and a headband to tame his messy, dirty-blonde hair.

Though petite, Dan busts out some phenomenal yelps while moon-walking his way around the stage. Blips and beats whiz around him and intertwine with erratic guitars and intense bass lines.

“We had some technical fuck ups and everyone [audience] was a bit ‘errr’ because they don’t know us,” Dan expresses. “We got here in a rush, so just jumped straight on stage. We didn’t even have time to line check.” We were too hooked on the danceable-ness to notice. Tree Friend Tree Foe was a whirlwind of high hats and dirty effects, with sexy, husky vocals. Meanwhile on the slower side of the BAF spectrum, Can The Freedom carried shrill vocals that rocked us gently on an ocean of genius."

BAFxx

Tin Pan Alley yesterday

We played the Tin Pan Alley festival yesterday, and it was GRATE. thank to everyone who came and cheered and scremed at us. Including SEDA who was INCREDIBLY DRUNKEN and quite funny...

Also, thanks to everyone who came cos it was ALL AGES. I KNOW, we don't play enough All Ages shows, but we'll do more, I promise. We got two lined up already, see, including the 1234 Festival in Shoreditch Park on the fifth.

We got to meet John Kennedy and Dan Le Sac, two people who've helped us out LOADS, but whom we've never actually met. And then we all went to the afterparty at Metros [urgh] and got a bit drunken and were happily surprised to see that The Ghost Frequency were playing.

Here's a horrible photo that Batteries In My Camera probably don't want me to show...



IanBAFxx

Tin Pan Alley

Ah Denmark Street. The mem'ries. It felt like a return to hallowed ground to play yesterday in that pissed up thoroughfare. It was, ahem, instrumental (get it? no? ah whatEVER) in the formation of BAF, since it was through an ad taped to the wall on that very street that I met Tobias and Mark, and three boys began playing guitar to drum machines, and the first mewling sounds of a newborn BAF were created.
Denmark street is also where we still buy all the stuff we lose on tour, and we've bought at least a couple of guitars and a few synths there. We used to rehearse on Denmark Place, and so it was a rushed and drunken honour to grace the stage at the Tin Pan Alley fest.

The rain stopped and the clouds (pretty much) parted as we came on, which was nice, as we looked out on to a couple of thousand mostly confused looking people, did a set by and large unhindered by technical shit-ups and finally met Dan Le Sac. I know, we're terrible, he remixed us ages ago and we've only just actually met him.

Thanks to all the people who came up to us, and the promoters for putting us on. Tobias was pissed off about having to miss Latitude but i think he was okay with it in the end. The girls from We Start Fires were cute.

Mark made an acute remark to the effect that this was probably the only day in our lives that we would be able to say the sentence: "let's go to the job centre to get some free booze"


Dan