Summer of 100 bands: 1 to 4

1. Kypie 

Power Trio. Interesting time sigs. Spikey Post Punk guitar, with indie singing  Tight rhythm section. But bass overpowering. Minutemen.  Actually quite a cool dynamic here odd time sigs and when the groove gets going it's really good. 

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2. Loser Superhero

Three guys hunched over laptops. Occasionally a guitar is picked up to no discernible effect. Too much talking to each other, there seems to be a malfunction.

Music aspires to be epic, and it has portentous pseudo-orchestral stuff in there. It's ok. Only played two songs. Felt longer, but then I've been up since five. Not this band's night. 

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3. Bleeding Heart Narrative

Backing Singer plays an electric cello but vocal mic doesn't work  Today must be a soundmam's nightmare. There's about five of them, at the  start of the set they all do this high pitched monotone singing like a one note Fleet Foxes, then the drummers (there's two one stood up Mo style) begin this Afro beat, before the guitar & strings come in. 

King of the Slums meet Vampire Weekend at David Byrne's house. Awkward & powerful at the same time. There's potential that this will become something special. 

4. Nedry

 Headliner. Laptops and pedals. Every band has had a completely different set up to the last - guitar trio then laptops & no vocals, then strings drums & lots of vocals and now laptops & girl singer. Change overs have been complex and fraught. 

Singer spending a large amount of time under a table playing with pedals that loop her singing.  She has that little Scandavanian girl vocals thing going on like Bjork or Stina Nordastam but there's this electro backing and she's jigs around like the singer from TT cover band Brazen.  The dancing is mad she's  jerking about randomly, becomes oddly excited at random times then she's back under the table adjusting the pedals.

She does sing well and with passion though.