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Gig Review: Kid Harpoon

Venue: Junction, Cambridge
Date: 20 September 2007

Singer-songwriter, Kid Harpoon, a rising star on the indie scene, has a six-track EP coming out and a debut album to follow. He’s soon to set off on a headline tour with his band, “The Powers That Be”, but tonight, in Cambridge, he’s supporting the Holloways + Wombats Tour.

Swaggering onto stage, with his band in tow, he throws himself straight into live favourite “Milkmaid”. It features a climactic chorus with the strangest, yet enduring lyric, “Here comes the milkmaid with her foreign shoulders and the attitude of Caesar”. The song is brimming with tempo and the crowd are instantly smitten.

The Kid, himself, is like a whirling dervish weaving in and out of his statuesque band and, with most of the fans before him being teenagers, he resembles a modern-day Pied Piper mesmerising the youth with his indie-folk musings - a mish-mash of Johnny Cash and James Blunt.

Songs “57” and “Flowers By The Shore” follow, each one a thrilling bedtime tale sung clearly and with fervour. The chord structures are simple and often his pianist takes up the lead but its catchy stuff. “First we’ll take Manhattan”, he shouts before the band pause briefly, “and then we’ll take Berlin” and they all launch back into the verse. It’s an ebbing number that the crowd soon pick up and scream back. They’ve definitely taken this long-haired Lothario to their hearts.

Band links = Kid Harpoon

Review commissioned by Music-Zine.

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