{"id":2712,"date":"2011-05-27T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2012-09-30T23:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T21:20:43","slug":"gazelle-jeremy-loops-co-and-two-minute-puzzle-at-the-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/gazelle-jeremy-loops-co-and-two-minute-puzzle-at-the-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazelle, Jeremy Loops & Co and Two Minute Puzzle at the Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday 21 may 2011<\/div>\n

So Saturday May 21 was supposed to be the rapture, or the end of the world or whatever…obviously it wasn’t, which is a little embarrassing for the Camping Clan but just as well as the 6pm apocalypse would’ve meant missing out on a night of fun at the Assembly with Gazelle, Jeremy Loops & Co and Two Minute Puzzle.<\/p>\n

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Headliners Gazelle are embarking on a Southern African tour, so the Assembly’s decor matched the whole African kitschness of the band – a violently orange Serengeti sunset was projected onto the screens (later replaced by closeups of a lion and a zebra) and (hideous) crocheted doilies, palm fronds and leopard print fabric all adorned the stage.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I keep wanting to call Two Minute Puzzle ‘Two Minute Pizza’…guess it’s because I think of two minute noodles and then get confused with the Zs…anyway,\u00a0 last time I saw them<\/a>, I really wasn’t very impressed…this time round though they won me over and I found myself smiling and enjoying them much more. Borrowing Stepdog’s drummer\u00a0 [edit: he wasn’t borrowed, he’s joined them<\/em> ] definitely helped, as did the added keyboard and guest appearances by album\/EP collaborators Jeremy Loops, Gazelle’s Xander Ferreira & Inge Beckmann.<\/p>\n\n\t\t