mikesaid: Noah Taylor and the Sloppy Fan

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Noah Taylor. I didn't really know who this guy was apart from he is an actor and plays in a band.... like Keanu Reeves.

What kind of name is Keanu? It translates to "Cool mountain breeze" so, I guess his name is Breeze Reeves? that's pretty cool.

Noah Taylor was in a movie I quite like called Submarine, further investigation (ie. Googling "Noah Taylor" +"wiki") informs me that he also played the lead roll in Shine and played alongside Angelina Jolies breasts in Tomb Raider among quite a few other movies....

Breeze Reeves.

So anyway, he also plays music... I haven't heard Keanu's band, but I'm sure it's probably pretty bad. Noah Taylor and the Sloppy Boys on the other hand, are great. If you like Grinderman, you will like these guys... I haven't had a good listen to the lyrics but it's down and dirty music (a-la Grinderman) but with a bigger Axe to.. um.. Grind.

Money For Rope were on first. TWO DRUMMERS! now yer talking... great high energy set, made photographing easy. I have seen their name pop up a lot but never caught them - worth a view if you are in the area.

Noah Taylor and the Sloppy Boys - a bit hard to photograph as there was not much movement going on - but the music was great (in case you didn't notice) and I got enough photos to keep everyone happy. So I will talk about the drunk 'fan' who spent each song prancing (if you can call it that) around in his own 3m x 3m area he cleared for himself at the front of the stage. I did enjoy the air swimming almost as much as I enjoyed the rushes to the stage for a handshake at any moment Mr Taylor would come close enough to 'connect' with. He really solidified the friendship when during one of his interpretive dance movements he managed to push the mic into his face while he was singing, he kept on keeping on though - he was on a time trial and had to get to the other end of the pool...

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