December 17th - Day 243

Hmmm...I was going to go to check out a freebie in Dalston tonight...start racking up the north London count a bit...ten cm of snow forecast in London this evening...Dalston's quite a long way...Brixton's not...there's a freebie there also...somewhere new I've not been to before...hmmmm....

Plumped for Brixton. I saw Swedish dreamy, harmonious, indie-folk outfit The Forest & The Trees playing at new venue The Rest is Noise. The band are centred around core duo Linnea and Joel who live in an apartment outside Stockholm where they "sleep, eat and create music". They started making music together last year when contributing to a Christmas cd for their friends, as an alternative to carols. So, with Christmas decorations encrouching their stage and snow swirling around Brixton Road outside the pub, this was an appropriate time to catch them for the first time...though maybe not, because they didn't sing any carols.

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