Myspace Trawl – Yoav

Originally, the artist featured in this week's trawl was actually going to be lumped into a gig review.

But then we realised we’d already reviewed Underworld in October, so doing it a few months later would be daft. And we couldn’t be bothered with the random and strange abusive comments we’d probably be left. But that’s a slight lie. This briefer-than-normal trawl will bang on a bit about our live encounter with Yoav.

Because we’re naive, we presumed Underworld would bring some sort of electronic band/artist with them. We were wrong. Instead of practising our dance moves, we were simply greeted with one man and his guitar. Instead of another dire James Blunt or James Morrison, though, we were presented with a man who was smacking his guitar like a drum, sampling the noise and building layer upon layer of up-tempo noise. Chopping bits out and mixing bits in with ease via his guitar pedals, he quickly got the crowd interested in what he was doing. That was our blind introduction to Yoav and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Checking him out online at his MySpace doesn’t disappoint either. A good variety of songs from an acoustic-based artist is always a positive start. We would go on a bit more, but we’ll let you listen blind to him just like we did.  

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