Rock and Pop: Iron and Wine @ Roundhouse
Published: 3 March, 2011
by CATHERINE ETOE
THE lustrously bearded Sam Beam and his band Iron and Wine are set to play the Roundhouse on Tuesday.
For first-time live Iron and Winers, the experience will probably be as pleasing as finding a chocolate biscuit at the back of the cupboard just when you thought you were out of snacks.
For those who have followed Willy Rushton lookey-likey Beam since his emergence almost a decade ago, it will be as delightful as meeting an old friend on a railway station platform.
Tickets for this tour to promote new album Kiss Each Other Clean are selling fast and the reviewers have gone superlative crazy. It isn’t bad going considering that few thought Beam could better the folky, alt-country blend that was The Shepherd’s Dog, probably the most hauntingly melodic album of 2007.
Thankfully, Beam isn’t one to stand still and he has mined the memories of his parents’ record collection and car radio tunes from drives with the folks to create a stylistically more adventurous sound.
It’s probably a more invigorating live prospect than Iron and Wine have ever offered before. Enjoy.