Thousand Yard Stare, The Shop Window – Academy 2, Islington
Back to see a band I’ve seen lots of – Thousand Yard Stare – and a band I’ve never seen before – The Shop Window.
Tonight’s show was the launch show for their recent album The Panglossian Momentum, which came out a couple of months after Covid hit, so I’d been waiting about 18 months for this one to be rescheduled. It was worth it.
Members of the Shop Window were active in the 1990s as part of Westpier, who I remember in name only from reading the NME and Melody Make religiously every week. They were signed to Indolent Records and therefore labelmates with Sleeper. They’ve recently formed a new unit and released a great debut album, The State Of Being Human, which harks back not to Britpop but to the jangle pop of the late 80s/early 90s, and an excellent job they do of it too.
Thousand Yard Stare just seem to get better with each headline gig I see – and both band and crowd seem to enjoy it more and more too, which can only bode well for the future.
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Thousand Yard Stare Setlist:
- Version of Me
- It Sparks!
- Heimlich Maneuver
- Schism Algorithm
- Buttermouth
- Keepsake
- Upping Sticks
- Comeuppance
- What’s Your Level?
- Sleepsound (live debut)
- Seasonstream
- Tragedy No.6
- 0-0 A.E.T.
- A Thousand Yards (A Panglossian Momentum)
Encore:
- Wideshire
- Wonderment
The Shop Window Setlist:
- Mannequin Lies
- Flags
- Ride It (While You Can)
- Sad Eyes
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Evacuate
- Out Of Reach
- Lay Of The Land
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Gigs index
- Hybrid Kid – Shortts Bar, Brighton
- Speakeasy Vol 1 – Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe
- S*M*A*S*H, The Astronauts – Club 85, Hitchin
- Thousand Yard Stare, The Shop Window – Academy 2, Islington
- Bugeye – The Horn at the Half Moon, Bishop’s Stortford
- Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Powerhaus, Camden
- Sea Power – Esquires, Bedford
- Salad, Piney Gir – The Lexington, Islington
- Fightmilk, The Spaces – Oast Community Centre, Rainham
- Fightmilk, Gold Baby, Gutts – The Victoria, Dalston
- Genesis – Liverpool Arena
- Pop Will Eat Itself, Utah Saints, Collapsed Lung – Assembly Hall, Islington
- Salad, Maschina, Burnout, Stick In The Wheel – High Tide Festival, Twickenham
- Hybrid Kid, White Dog, Lemur Lemur – Prince Albert, Brighton
- Futureheads, Mt Misery – Esquires, Bedford
- Sea Power – Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes
- The Primitives, Jetstream Pony – The Lexington, Islington
- Becontree 100: Nova Twins – Parsloes Park, Dagenham
- Abdoujaparov, Big Boy Tomato – The Holroyd Arms, Guildford
- Pop Will Eat Itself, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer – Assembly Hall, Islington
- Smokin’ Donuts – The Chequers, Billericay
- Republica, All Tomorrow’s Stories, Saint Nevis – The Boston Arms, Tufnell Park
- Dream Wife – Audio, Peckham
- Xmas Freak Show – The Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea
- Pop Will Eat Itself, Jeana – Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes
- Steve Hackett – The Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff-on-Sea
- Darling Buds, Helen Love – The Lexington, Islington
- Salad, Cozy Slippers, Gold Baby, Macadamia Sluts – The Finsbury, Finsbury Park
- Hurtling, Pink Haze, Petrol Boys – The Horn at the Half Moon, Bishop’s Stortford
- Divine Comedy – Empire, Shepherd’s Bush
- Jim Bob, S*M*A*S*H, Midway Still – Esquires, Bedford
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