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LA Salami North America Tour Dates
Tour Dates
Apr 1 - Toronto, ON The Drake
Apr 3 - Boston, MA - The Red Room at Café 939 Apr 5 - New York, NY - Rough Trade NYC Apr 6 - Philadelphia, PA - The Boot & Saddle Apr 7 - Washington, DC - DC9 Nightclub Read More
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London’s L.A. Salami headlined the 7th Street Entry on Thursday, March 28th.
Opening the show was Cat Clyde, who was previously in town with ZZ Ward in June 2017. The Stratford, Ontario singer/songwriter played selections from her debut album Ivory Castanets (Cinematic Music Group), including “Running Water” and “The Man I Loved Blues”.
Surprised at the good turnout at the 7th Street Entry, Clyde, midway in her set, asked, “What day of the week is it? Thursday? It’s a great Thursday!”
Highlight of the show was when L.A. Salami’s backing band joined Clyde on stage to play “Mama Said”, making for a nice change of pace with a fuller sound to her quieter Americana songs.
Clyde ended her 40-min set with “The River”. Although only released in late 2017, it may be her signature song with its lyrics, “Like the river I roll along. Today I'm here, tomorrow I'm gone”.
Coming on stage to an extended band jam intro, L.A. Salami (short for his full name Lookman Adekunle Salami) confessed that he’s been “spying from the bar” to survey the crowd. He’s come to the conclusion that we were an “interesting group.” If you couldn’t tell, it was clear that he was pretty happy about the large audience, possibly thanks to his appearance at the popular local station The Current ahead of the show.
L.A. Salami’s band consists of Mark Thorneon guitar, Frank Styles on bass, and Danny Brooks on drums, and their music is more on the punky DYI rock (like the Replacements or the Strokes). They basically serve the emphasize or enhance L.A. Salami’s poet-like lyrical songs. Sometime, especially when the harmonica is used, L.A. Salami sounds just like he was channeling Bob Dylan.
While L.A. Salami released a debut album and various EPs, he mainly stuck to playing his forthcoming album The City of Bootmakers (Sunday Best/PIAS Records), such as “Generation L(ost)” and “Who’s Cursing Us Now”... possibly because he is very much excited about the new materials and just can’t wait for people to hear these songs.
The City of Bootmakers was recorded in Berlin with Robbie Moore and its theme and focus seems to be urban welfare (“England’s Unwell”) and education (“Terrorism! (The Isis Crisis)”). A rather smart album, and worth looking into if you’re into poetry set to music.
L.A. Salami continues his North American tour in April.
Opening the show was Cat Clyde, who was previously in town with ZZ Ward in June 2017. The Stratford, Ontario singer/songwriter played selections from her debut album Ivory Castanets (Cinematic Music Group), including “Running Water” and “The Man I Loved Blues”.
Surprised at the good turnout at the 7th Street Entry, Clyde, midway in her set, asked, “What day of the week is it? Thursday? It’s a great Thursday!”
Highlight of the show was when L.A. Salami’s backing band joined Clyde on stage to play “Mama Said”, making for a nice change of pace with a fuller sound to her quieter Americana songs.
Clyde ended her 40-min set with “The River”. Although only released in late 2017, it may be her signature song with its lyrics, “Like the river I roll along. Today I'm here, tomorrow I'm gone”.
Coming on stage to an extended band jam intro, L.A. Salami (short for his full name Lookman Adekunle Salami) confessed that he’s been “spying from the bar” to survey the crowd. He’s come to the conclusion that we were an “interesting group.” If you couldn’t tell, it was clear that he was pretty happy about the large audience, possibly thanks to his appearance at the popular local station The Current ahead of the show.
L.A. Salami’s band consists of Mark Thorneon guitar, Frank Styles on bass, and Danny Brooks on drums, and their music is more on the punky DYI rock (like the Replacements or the Strokes). They basically serve the emphasize or enhance L.A. Salami’s poet-like lyrical songs. Sometime, especially when the harmonica is used, L.A. Salami sounds just like he was channeling Bob Dylan.
While L.A. Salami released a debut album and various EPs, he mainly stuck to playing his forthcoming album The City of Bootmakers (Sunday Best/PIAS Records), such as “Generation L(ost)” and “Who’s Cursing Us Now”... possibly because he is very much excited about the new materials and just can’t wait for people to hear these songs.
The City of Bootmakers was recorded in Berlin with Robbie Moore and its theme and focus seems to be urban welfare (“England’s Unwell”) and education (“Terrorism! (The Isis Crisis)”). A rather smart album, and worth looking into if you’re into poetry set to music.
L.A. Salami continues his North American tour in April.
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Cat Clyde (with L.A. Salami’s band) |
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Cat Clyde |
L.A. Salami (art by Vu) |
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L.A. Salami at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (29 Mar 2018) |
