Roll out the Kid Carpet
27 Jun 2004
It’s late, it’s Saturday night, you’re in the Lost Vagueness Chapel. What could possibly go wrong? For Kid Carpet, Bristol-based electronica star turn, the answer is pretty much everything. He is seemingly given the run around by the stage management* to the extent that his set has to cut to a criminally short three numbers.
He is also not completely match fit (it’s late, it’s Lost Vagueness etc) but the Kid gives us just enough of the Carpet sound to suffice if not to satisfy. And what a sound. Casio keyboards, the kind you got for Christmas as a child but never learned to play, produce an array of instrumental sounds and tempos to accompany his enthusiastic delivery of often poignant lyrics. There is even a toy guitar solo.
So Kid Carpet did not get his fifteen minutes of fame tonight. Don’t worry, he will be back.
Jamie Walters
* According to Jim Landi from Lost Vagueness: "Kid Carpet arrived unexpectedly and didn't let us know in time that he required some equipment which was already in place on the other stage for the next band to use. As a result it was impossible for him to use all his gear and he chose to play a shorter set with the more portable equipment. It wasn't his fault and it certainly wasn't the stage crew's."
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