I don’t understand why the Breakout nights at the Barfly in Camden aren’t more popular. £6 per ticket and six bands to choose from on the night, you really are spoilt for choice. Of course it helps when you there to see the headline act. 

Milo Greene, a five piece from the West Coast of America, are going to be your new favourite band. This was the last night of their first full UK tour, which included three London dates, two of which sold out. This band brings everything to the table; energy, soul, and cool beards and seem to be everything Mumford & Sons perhaps wish they were.

 

Yes American, but also a full album of top quality folk songs that you just want to stamp your foot to. Their searing group harmonies had the teenage girl in the front row swooning at one point I’m sure, and with songs such as Don't You Give Up On Me, Cutty Love and 1957, they had the room controlled. This is a band to watch in 2013.

 

Khushi show promise, with some witty songwriting and interesting melodies, they are for fans of Villagers who are looking something to get their foot tapping a little harder.

 

Echotape are indie Rock ‘n’ Roll through and through, and I’m sure the lead singer had been reading ‘Rules of Being a Front man’ the night before coming on stage. He fulfilled the role with the arrogance required to hold his fist in the air for a full minute when no one else seemed to be that bothered.

 

The odd one out was Leanne Robinson, a well oiled pop act who would have been more suited to playing in one the swanky bars around Chalk Farm rather than the upstairs at the Barfly. Nothing drastically new here to what you would hear on the radio.

 

If you do one thing this weekend, check out Milo Greene, you won’t be disappointed. Their self titled debut album is available now.

 

@joeeley

   

 

Milo Green played;

 

Staging Point

Wooden Antlers

Dyguom

Silent Way

What’s The Matter

Son My Son

Chicago

Autumn Tree

Polatoid

Perfectly Aligned

Take A Step

Cutty Love

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Shot In The Arm

1957