I’d heard the recent BEAK> single, ‘Brean Down‘, on 6 Music and liked it a lot – a noir and squalid atmosphere rendered invigorating by delicious choppy drums, with vocals that sounded like they were recorded in a bus shelter between gasps of butane. All I knew was BEAK> was Geoff Barrow of Portishead’s new outfit, although they’d actually been around ten years. So it was an easy decision to see them live, instead of staying in, as usual, to do the slo-mo hop-scotch around the creaky floorboards outside our toddler’s bedroom.

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