Dignan Porch @ The Lexington, May 25th.
Posted by: nick
Ace Texas label In The Red’s The Intelligence were supposed to be over from the States to headline this night but got detained at the French/UK border apparently. Oh well, we were there to see Dignan Porch anyway who had no trouble making the journey from Tooting to Angel incidentally.
For Fans Of: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Skygreen Leopards, The Warlocks.
Joe Walsh fronted the band on vocals and guitar with his voice really standing up live. His brother Sam, in an awesome Melivins t-shirt, adds some of those beautiful guitar textures we can’t get enough of on their debut album ‘Tendrils’. Meanwhile Ben on a tasty red bass and old school friend Phillipa on drums make up an able rhythm section.
The beauty of Dignan Porch live is their songs range from about one and a half to three minutes in length so there’s space for a lot of them, even in a modest support slot this evening. Single ‘On A Ride’ is precictably brilliant but ‘Flowers In May’, ‘As You Were’, The Warlocks esque ‘No Pressure Baby’ and the more chilled out ‘We Sat On The Hill’ are equally enthralling.
Already working on a second album, on an indie level we’re expecting great things from these guys.
