Comus / Simon Finn / Rameses III - The Forum London 28th / 29th May 2010

I'd not heard any recordings of seminal weirdo proggy folky oddballs Comus since they started playing again so the recording here came as a bit of a surprise to me.. Usually when a band returns so many years later they'll have grown stale and conservative but in this case the opposite seems to be true, as this recent recording of 'Diana' (first heard on the classic 'First Utterance') and its demented tangle of voices and guitars is, if anything, quite a lot weirder than the original.. Which was already pretty weird in the first place. Wish I'd been there to see it! Rameses III's warm ambient droneyness isn't really the stuff that classic 7"s are made of but 'Like The Stars (Micro-Ending)' goes down nicely, as does Simon Finn's 'Polar Veil' which has pretty much stopped me in my tracks with its slightly psych-tinged folk beauty. Gonna have to go and look into some of his stuff I reckon..