Fantastic gig at Nottingham, the last one from the Bluetones Collections gigs!

This one wildblanket made!

Ah thank you PLakka for being who you are...A mad band full of mad people...

A great gig well worth waiting 2 weeks for, Plakka to play this nice venue in Kings cross .
They were dressed up as a mix of marins and dead marins, the girls in the band being the dead ones, (new addition, Claude from Green Drummers on keyboard) and after a few convivial drinks, the gig started , enlightened by the greatest ever Auto Disco song when George, the dummer, stopped drumming and came to sing backing vocals at the front instead. We could hear the keyboard having a few problems on the way but the show as a whole was vey entertaining and PK13 was at the top of his shape and the gig was excellent/
VOltane had managed to save £2 and was there, along with Brenda, Swan,Keith and other lovely creatures including us, Greg and Smatka.
We want to see more dressing up...they looked fantastic.

One dazzling evening with the Wildblanket team and Brenda, we headed off for the Angel station to get to see Plakka at their last minute gig.
Being starving as we were, we searched for this french restaurant called "Trouvaille " or something like that which I had been in before and coudln't find it, so I asked 2 very polite and pleasant French men in Nicolas Wine shop who directed us to another couple of French restaurants a bit further up the road. They were very helpful.
As we walked away we suddenly bumped into Rodizio Rico which is a Brazillian restaurant which also is on Westbourne Grove, and which is famous for "don't eat a week before going but eat for 3 month once you are there" type of restaurant.
But careful, it was not a Rif Raf crappy buffet restaurant, it s fine Brazilian cuisine restaurant which proposes a vegetarian buffet including many types of vegetables like Cassava root and salads and lamb stew with beans and chicken wings and fish cutlets and cheese breads and mango chutney, mint, pesto,mayonnaise, any kind of sauce you can find in Europe and the world. It is a very posh buffet.
Anyway we didn't go for the meat barbecue option(they bring skewers of meat of very varried styles to your table every 5 minutes even when you are eating your desssert: they are still there asking if you may want a piece of beef fillet..)
The vegetarian option with the lamb stew suited us fine and we also ordered a local cocktail which was very strong.
We walked to the venue on time, BK13 was outside texting us the time of their performance, and noticed us very nicely.
We went in and the band was their usual very welcoming and friendly selves, as Stop Thief, another band, was playing. Stop thief were good but sounded like someone rather that I had not heard of but Neil had.
Plakka went on stage, 5 of them instead of their normal 6 (the keyboard player is gone for more adventures around the world, forgetting his keyboard) so Plakka started their set with mmhhh... a song which sounded wonderful even though the keys werre definitely missing and needed. Their set was nice and long but we did not hear Wisper and my favourite Disco song due to lack of keyboard.
The sound was good, BK having a few problems with his monitors but what seemed a very efficient sound man fixed them very soon.
We left them eventually after 11 and went back home, all excited, particularly Brenda who had not seen them play before and was very taken by the music and the performers.
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A very organised evening brought us to see the unmisseable Plakka in Stoke Newington , free entry in this very busy pub. Horror, Plakka had already started, at 20.28 when they were suppsoed to start at 20.30!
We only missed a little of their first song.
The crowd was very friendly and up for a good time, blonde beauties dancing across the front of the stage.
Plakka were very strong, amazing really as usual but this time they added a special care in their dresscode, which they may usually do but I only saw 3 of their gigs and missed the Sailor's one .
I admired BK13's new look but also Spanna's new hairstyle, aparently designed by Alan. The girls were pretty as usual and the other band members very good.
Very inspiring gig...To be followed carefully...Very pretty keyboards too.

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One of these is not in Plakka !

"They called us again ! The fools! At that short notice! " Was one of the band's members reaction to their new very short notice indeed gig at Metro where they seem to be liked a lot. Good for them! Handy location next to tube and good food close by.
We had a little japanese dinner at Itsu (managed by a French Corsican man and owned by the same chain as Pret A Manger, Itsu is a very nice conveyor belt type restaurant, with very tasty and good quality raw fish and other dishes. )
IT wasn't very filling and I had to have a snack afterwards of course.
We arrived at Metro s just before the last before band were playing. Very enthousiastic Plakka's band members greeted us, and Bobby explained we may like the next band as they were quite heavy.
They were called Arkham Razor and were a 4 piece band, with indeed a lot of glitter as Plakka also told us. A ver interesting band, I would call them.
Their music was calm but smooth and strong, powerful with raw lyrics and beautiful riffs. They have a very good stage presence. And a strong following which went away with them as they left the stage.

Then Plakka came onstage, in a very good shape and state of mind, so it seemed, and started the set very well, except for a bit of keyboard trouble (dodgy lead?) . I still get surprised at their Disco song to see the drummer stand up, quit drumming , and coming to sing with the trumpet player.
They finished with Whispers and invited some people to come and sing along with them on stage.
It was a very good set and very enjoyable music, I am taking to them more everytime I see them.
Oh this blogs are getting more and more personnal!
Ah well. Plakka during "Disco song"

A we forgot to mention the lighting was crap. But it usually is, at Metro's.

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Plakka played this gig in Holloway on a very damp and dark spring evening.
I was feeling rather grumpy as I dind't have any diner and felt the whole world was collapsing over the Nambucca.
Plakka were being very friendly as they exceptionnally are for a band (ie saying hello!) (and buying drinks)and Matteo from Susan Acid joined us with friend Marta and her boyfriend Erico? Maybe.
The place was very comfi and whilst Plakka were on stage there was this band doing a show in the toilets. I didn't see it as it was in the gents. But aparently they had the drums, the guitars and teh singers in there, everything.
Plakka were energetic and interesting, as they are. The singer was very charismatic, dressed up in a black hat and striped tshirt. The whole band was good, but we remembered them good from the Klinker South, even though the sound box kept crashing and having to be fixed with a broomstick.

Plakka is a great band and worth seeing if you want and need cheering up.

Green Drummers (as O-F)

Wildblanket starved

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I missed that one, it was said to be good

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