On White Rabbits' official site, they include a 'Press' section which - rather than linking to Pitchfork's glowing review of their debut album 'Fort Nightly' - consists of a number of often disparaging reviews from 13-year old schoolkids. One of the more appreciative children makes a sidenote to state that they are in the school orchestra and so knows "alot about music". This is obviously true, because they then concisely describe White Rabbits without their fellow reviewers' need for incaccurate and repellent comparisons to the likes of The Strokes, Muse, Madness or Arctic Monkeys.
"nice beat, great choice of notes, flows quite well, fine choice of words"This summary could easily be elaborated upon to include references to their beautiful summertime Calypso piano lines, powerful double drumming, multi-layered vocal and instrumental harmonies and mass singalongs ("We held our tongues throughout it, one day we'll laugh about it!"), but those few words are simple and understated enough to simultaneously address and reflect the wonderful pop music of White Rabbits.
Kid On My Shoulders
The Plot
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White Rabbits were performing in Dublin last Saturday night at Nokia Trends Lab's inaugural event, alongside Simple Kid (download Simp's free 3-track EP here) and Halves. The Rabbits and The Kid will both be returning to Ireland in September to play on Electric Picnic's 'Nokia Trends Lab' stage. The stage will also host - at least - three more of the festival's highlights; The Kissaway Trail, Good Shoes and The Little Ones.
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Good post, but I think you unfairly understated Nokia's importance in the whole affair. I personally felt that from the cordial and helpful welcoming staff to the innovative VJ, Nokia's involvement was a maelstrom of positive vibes. The orange jelly beans were delicious and served in those delightful novelty test-tubes (Trends Lab!) and we definitely weren't approached several times by people telling us the same thing! Yeah!
Just so's you know, Halves have also just been confirmed for the Nokia trend labs tent at Electric Picnic on the Sunday afternoon. And the whole Crawdaddy gig was quite an experience - very well run.
First of all loved the song!
"We held our tongues throughout it / One day we'll laugh about it."
What dose IT MEAN!?
What are they talking about?
But then again if there holding there tongues then maybe we aren't supposed to know what they mean HHMMMmm...
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