
The intimate (that means slightly cramped) Borderline was the host for last night's gig by Blitzen Trapper supported by The Dutchess & The Duke . The latter gave us 35 minutes of beautifully crafted folk harmonies and the occasional arsenic tinged lyric. The hushed, attentive crowd and easy going banter from the band made it feel like a 60s coffee house in Greenwich Village and so charmingly uncommercial were they that, following a climactic Armageddon Song , the crowd had to remind them at the end to play their best known song, the brilliant [...]