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Magic Teapot + Andy Wright presents

+ Special guests SILENT DEVICES

Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny + Goodnight Lenin + Silent Devices

Drowned In Sound review:

If you are a woman in music at the moment it is very important to pick a side, otherwise you cannot expect to be included in a crass magazine feature that lumps all the kooky womens together under the heading Baroque Our World!1!!1!!!!! - before proceeding to ask all of them where they get their fucking shoes from or whether their feathered headdresses aren’t very heavy to sing in. Oh, songstresses. Anyway, hopefully Beth Jeans Houghton will sidestep all the fuss and honking so she can get on with doing things like ‘Liliputt’, which is one of those marvellous many-bitted, impressively chamber-orchestrated, soaring songs that makes me want to write spoof pitches to womens’ magazines just to see if they will commission a think piece on how my dad’s death from cancer helped me get a boyfriend ten years my junior.* ‘Liliputt’ is also wonderfully restrained, despite having quite a bit of drama in its pockets - rather like an am-dram cast who have learnt that stage make up and black-ringed eyes is not really necessary, when you are only playing to the village hall. Really good.