Upcoming Gig: Mountain Goats

Before writing this post I did a quick search to see if Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle had a Twitter account, he’s doesn’t, in retrospect of course he doesn’t. For a writer like Darnielle you can’t help thinking a 140 character limit would be an unbearable imposition. His songs overflow with lyricism, twisted biographical storytelling of rare quality – few have fitted more complex narratives into a 3 and a half minute pop song.

Pronounced by Rolling Stone as “One of the best songwriters of the 00s”
and slightly backhandedly by the New Yorker as “America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist“. If you want to make up your own mind you’ll need to be quick. Only a handful of seats remain for The Mountain Goats show at Queen Elizabeth Hall, click the link below to book:

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/the-mountain-goats-49021

Embedded below is Sax Rohmer #1 taken from their most recent record Heretic Pride, their new record The Life of the World to Come is out on 4AD this October.