This isn't my favourite Heavenly song, but it's wildly appropriate today because I, too, fell in love last night! With a Dublin band I'd never seen or heard before. They're called the Tender Trap - a name, ironically, also used by Heavenly goddess Amelia Fletcher in recent years - and they put on such a great performance they could have easily had an encore although they weren't even headlining. Musically they reminded me a lot of Orange Juice, though with not quite such distinctive vocals; their drummer is the lead singer, which is usually a bad idea but seemed to work in this case. They played about half their set as a three-piece and for the other half they added a female guitarist-keyboardist (female guitarists are always a plus in my book) who brought a particularly intriguing dimension to their sound. I really, really enjoyed them - as the rest of the crowd clearly also did - and can't wait to see them again.
Unfortunately I don't yet have anything by them to put up here, so this Heavenly song will have to do. But just remember the name: The Tender Trap, from Dublin. You'll be hearing more about (and from!) them soon, I hope.
UPDATE! They've now changed their name to Hello Moon, and you can listen to some of their wonderful songs yourself on this page.
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Hello Cinnamon Girl, Alan from the tender Trap here thanks for ypur kind words ive fell inlove with a blog heehee ... there might have been a better way to contact you than commenting on a post you've written about the band im in but anyhoo... Amanda (our guitarist) found this post when googling our band (stalking ourselves) now im dropping by to say if you'd like to have some mp3 demos of our songs we've recorded about 15 of the 30 or so songs we have email us at tenderlytrapped@gmail.com.. we'd love to hear from you.. thanks again
Alan
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