Field Music
Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2010
BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE and everybody inside has their winter coats on too, even though 60 of us are crammed together in Sunderland's most bijou venue, The Little Room upstairs at The Independent club, and Field Music are steaming along in pulse-quickening 7s and 17s as is their wild-willed wont – don't ask which tune owns which time signature, Mojo doesn't do counting (especially with mittens on).
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