It’s chaotic, it’s unclassifiable but it’s totally wonderful! This is Crystal Fighters, who blend folk with fast dance beats and energetic vocals!
They’re playing the Birmingham HMV Institute on Friday 8th October – think I might try to make it along, I can’t even imagine what this lot are like live … (The Fly review here)
This quote says it all “”what would happen if you went back, say, 100 years and dropped a ton of modern recording equipment plus a copy of Mixmag into an obscure hamlet in the heart of the Basque region of Spain and left the villagers, steeped as you’d expect in folk music, to their own devices” The Guardian
- Crystal Fighters, ‘Follow’ — Video Premiere (spinner.com)
- Crystal Fighters Confirm Single, Tour (idiomag.com)
- New band of the day: September 2010 playlist (guardian.co.uk)
