We’ve had some more photos sent in of people in Truckers of Husk t-shirts… I’m not sure if these kids are fans quite yet. Clearly the parents are!

So I’ve gone to Google Maps and I now know where Thurrock is. It East of London, along the Thames, getting towards Southend. Welcome people from Thurrock!

 Here’s a review that The Thurrock Gazette did of Concrete & Glass. I’m sure there’s more that involve Truckers Of Husk, our band who played there, but this one landed on my lap this morning…

CONCRETE & GLASS BRICK LANE, LONDON 3 OCT

On paper this is a great idea; ace bands, several venues within walking distance, with the streets full of excited indie kids and impressionable fools, like a festival but in normal venues. Like The Camden Crawl, then. That’s where it falls down. At a festival you’ve got several medium-sized arenas, and most of the people who want to get in manage it. Here it’s a nightmare, because the venues vary in size, from tiny to very small and to plain inadequate. And everyone - well, it feels like that - wants to see the same bands at the same times, and often in 350-max venues, leaving big groups of people very disappointed and not a little fucked off. To the two bands we did get to see… Truckers of Husk in the Vibe Bar, 9pm, with the ‘festival’ still warming up. Welsh post-math-rock performed by phenomenally tight musicians - and without any of the messy self-indulgence that often comes with the territory. As good a live band as anyone in that field, further illustrating their superior ‘P.E.E.P.’ EP from early this year. You’ll like them, of that I’m certain - and they’ll surely reappear with an album sometime soon. Here’s hoping. With a lot of huff and puff we were shoehorned into a genuinely frightening heaving Macbeth, a superhuman effort that no-one on tonight’s multi- bill other than album of the year purveyors Pete & The Pirates would warrant. We can’t really see a great deal, but we know what they look like so that’s not crucial. There’s not a bad song on the album, and live they inject an extra dose of energy - like the record needs it - while dropping early b-side ‘Wrong Man’ into the mix to a rousing reception. The demand is at least justified, but they really should be headlining your Forums or Astorias rather than playing an albeit nice pub more suited to a Kingmaker comeback show in truth. So, the bands we did see were marvellous, but like many others we went home riled by our inability to get in where we wanted on a few occasions. I’m sure lessons will be learned though… ANDY SLOCOMBE