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Euros Childs @ King's College Union, 26th September 2007
Euros Childs released The Miracle Inn, his second album of the year around a month ago. Tonight's set is comprised mainly of songs from this album, which is mainly in English, along with some in Welsh from Bore Da which was released in March. Euros is in good spirits tonight, as he takes the time to explain what the Welsh songs are about, and although there were a couple of songs from Bore Da I had wanted to hear and have explained to us, when he starts hammering out the blues-y, surf-y intro to his new single Horse Riding that's all we care about, especially after Euros lets loose his falsetto voice. Horse Riding is about a "real good boy" who goes to church on a Sunday being taken aback by a horse riding girl in a red dress. Euros and his band are obviously enjoying themselves too, playing a song, 3D, in red and green 3D glasses and adopting a 3D formation. The eponymous Miracle Inn is sublime, a fifteen minute long song about a teenage haunt knocked down to build a car park, which "sounds like it's ending every minute or so" during which we are advised not to clap like some members of the audience are. Because it would take too long to go down and up the lifts at King's, Euros and his band show us what happens backstage as we call for an encore by having a hug onstage before playing a few more songs including My Country Girl from his first album Chops. He's off on a tour of Europe and America now if you can catch him on any dates, but if not buy the albums - despite being released in relatively quick succession it only goes to show his talent that they're all brilliant and unique.
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