Death Cab For Cutie

[22 Aug 2008 | Christopher Hodgkins]

Ok, so, I know I recently slated Death Cab for Cutie for their appalling gig, but I have finally bit­ten the bul­let and listened to their latest offer­ing.
Yes, the con­cert was a shambles but let’s for­get that and move on to the album. I was bored, work­ing at the com­puter and, hav­ing recently lost my entire iTunes lib­rary thanks to a com­puter fail­ure, I was thor­oughly annoyed. So I decided to down­load the new DCFC album and MY GOD IS IT GOOD!
Ini­tial listen­ing led me to believe that it was …

[29 Jul 2008 | Christopher Hodgkins]

Death Cab for Cutie, I’ve been a fan for years and they never had the decency to play any­where near my homet­own, until now. Grabbing myself a ticket on the day of first sale just to be sure; I was a little sur­prised that when I turned up even the dear ticket scalp­ers that are inher­ent with any Academy gig weren’t buy­ing tick­ets, appar­ently not as pop­u­lar a gig as I thought it’d be.
I have to come clean now and admit that I hadn’t actu­ally heard DCFC’s new album pre­vi­ously, mainly …