Transparent is a magazine and a club night, that has, without anyone noticing, taken over the entire London music scene. If there is an up and coming london band, they will have played transparent. Its just impossible not to. With impeccable taste, only the best bands are booked, in venues that will seem ludicrous in six months time. The poster on the right was the line-up for their first ever club night, just over a year ago. It speaks for itself, really.
The whole thing is the brain-(and love-)child of Sahil Varma, a man with a love of music and a flair for spotting a good act from miles away, who has now launched the transparent blog, an attempt to keep the whole thing fresh. One day in, and already I’ve been pipped to the post – Burmese Days’ Giving Up On the Girl is there, laughing at my feeble attempts to be the first to post it. Clearly not a blog to be messed with!
Burmese Days – Giving Up on the Girl [MP3 Removed - via transparent]
Dizzee Rascal vs Zongamin – Stand Up Tall (remix) [MP3 Removed - via transparent]
thanks a lot for the post. we love you.
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This was written by sahil, no denying it! Those bands are the biggest thing now, clearly never going to be lucrative acts for the industry! A run down!
1. Les incompetents, a truely shabby out of time drunk band live, however good songs, split up already!
2. Pull tiger tail, lack vocal talent, may sound ok after 4 pints.
3. Late of the pier, good groove, some good songs in parts, but really, don’t have complete songs, leave you always feeling that they are just a teenage band.
4. Jack Penate? nice guy! it’s not going to sell that well is it? 11pm xfm is the best really.
Pfft. Sahil wishes he could write beautiful prose like that.
I am my own man! Just a bit gushing sometimes. ;-)
[...] first band up were my old mates, Burmese Days. They took to a stage with a revamped set, a new track, and, after two songs, a broken keyboard. [...]