A flying visit to the new Proud Galleries in Camden, to the excellent Another Music = Another Kitchen club night - which hosted The Courteeners' first ever London gig in the not too distant past. As well as that, they routinely feature sets by the best new bands out there, so it is good that Proud Galleries has reopened (bigger and better) to be their home again. The occasion this evening was a fairly rare London set by the excellent Bombay Bicycle Club. Getting into the venue, I was surprised to see it pretty empty altogether, although of course the night was still young when I got there. The new Proud is much bigger than the old version, now featuring (almost) enough toilets, a much bigger gig room, and a bar in a stable - should be a very good venue this summer.
Bombay Bicycle Club came on stage at about 10:30pm, the singer sporting a nice 6th former pair of glasses, a yellow t-shirt and floppy hair. He looked taller, lankier and skinnier than I remembered him, and looking at his bandmates, they looked older than the 17 and 18 years old that they are. Their set was again very good, the 2 surprises were again that the venue was not much busier to see them, and that many more people have not heard of this band. Open House in particular is a fantastic song, and although it got the crowd rocking from foot to foot this time, you just expect that this should be a song that's making a gig venue go crazy. Hopefully it soon will be.All in all this was something of a surreal gig, seeing a really good band play some really good songs, in front of a pretty small crowd of largely disinterested people. One of the stranger shows I've been to recently, but still good to see BBC again, and good to get a look at the new, improved Proud Galleries.
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