Hello Birds,

Our latest (and probably nicest) review from The Moose Factory is as follows…

17:33 – Moose Factory Review

Dear Birds,

Here is our latest review from The Moose Factory:

“Birdeatsbaby is a young, mostly female, dark cabaret act with a classical rock opera slant from Brighton. Think what Queen would have done if they had been Absinthe drinking pals with Van Gogh at the Moulin Rouge and you won’t be too far off.

Their debut EP, ‘China Doll’, was sent to me with a collection of red and black feathers, which was a nice touch. They weren’t to know that my cat has a lethal allergy to feathers. Never mind. I never liked that cat anyway.

The title track most suits the dark cabaret rock opera tagline, with its various changes and piano-driven forward gear and powerful singing. Very dramatic and I’m sure Freddy Mercury is crying somewhere with the pompous beauty of it all. Only sometimes do I feel that the storyline just has too many syllables for the music to keep up with. For the most part, I’m there happily for the ride.

More successful, I feel, are the other two tracks on the EP. I love the title of track 2, ‘I Always Hang Myself With the Same Rope,’ which I can relate to somehow. The track itself is more rock then the others, but the piano and string backing give it that cabaret feel that threads its way through the whole recording.

The EP ends with the lilting off-kilter waltz, ‘Shiver up my Spine.’ I can’t help but imagine an Adam’s Family sing-a-long around the piano. Cousin It, Morticia, et al could only dream of this passionate sound, however.

All in all, Birdeatsbaby tread that dangerous ground of music versus theatre; camp versus passion; humour versus quality, and they do it rather well. I’m very curious to see what they’re like live. This is something you can do at the Purple Turtle in Camden on June 1.”

Also, please please please (if you haven’t already) vote for us for round two of Surface Unsigned by texting “SURFACE 495″ to 83149
Thank you!

birdeatsbaby x

Dear Birds,

So, what have we been up to recently? Well, we played the lovely little town of Ipswich last Thursday at a lovely little pub called The Railway. Of course by lovely I mean absolutely woeful and crap.
To begin with, the promoter, a Mr Martin Briggs, had neither balls nor brain to take charge of the operation when it turned out we had no cymbals stands, sound engineer, working microphones and (most laughable), plug sockets! After doing our own sound (thank you Keely), it was decided that this was probably a big waste of time (4 hours each way to Ipswich). To make matters worse, the owner of this delightful venue had left a mate of his in charge, who just happened to be the most anal and badly dressed human I have ever met. He proceeded to hold a decibel meter up to the stage during all of the bands’ sets, threatening to “throw us out” if we went above a certain level… IT’S A F**KING MUSIC VENUE!!
After a short and surprisingly well-received set (the 10 people in the venue cheered), the headline band were ‘cancelled’ during their second song for being too loud! Naturally, the night descended into drunken chaos with the pub owner’s mate being shouted at by every person in the room: “YOU TWAT!!” and other such things… The headline band, Wooderson, proceeded to beat the drum kit as loudly as possible and make as much noise as they could, making them our heroes of the night!
After retiring to Martin’s dingy excuse for a house we slept on a smelly floor littered with cigarette butts and beer cans (nice hospitality, Ipswich), hungry and generally pissed off. Well, you live and learn… NEVER go to Ipswich…

On a better note, we’re playing The Great Escape Festival/Alternative Escape in Brighton on May 16th – we would love you to be there! More news soon…

birdeatsbaby x