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Hi and Happy Sunday with Tacocat's Halogram.

Good morning with Boys In The Better Land taken from Fontaines D.C.'s new album. Have a nice weekend.

Good morning with Too Cool From School, our Middle of the Week Song, taken from Little Friend's A Substitute For Sadness. Have a nice day.

Hi with Bridle's Weymouth. Have a nice afternoon.

Hi and Happy Sunday with Flower Crown's Szn.

Good morning with Amyl and The Sniffers' Monsoon Rock. Have a nice weekend.

Good morning with Father Mountain, our Middle of the Week Song, taken from Years to Burn Calexico and Iron & Wine upcoming first joint album. Have a nice day.

Daniel Bisig & Ephraim Wegner: Jetzt from cronicaelectronica on Vimeo.

Hi with Ephraim Wegner & Daniel Bisig's Jetzt. Have a nice afternoon.

Hi and Happy Sunday with Shovels and Rope's Wire.

Good morning with Loma the band's Half Silences. Have a nice weekend.

Good mornig with Yerterday Girls, our middle of the week song, taken from Akron, Ohio Sad Planets's (John Petkovic & Patrick Carney from The Black Keys) debut album. Have a nice day.

Little Friend - Time For T, Hard Club, Porto, 05.04.2019.

Little Friend © Raquel Pinheiro

words & photos: Raquel Pinheiro


Little Friend, John Almeida's brainchild, presented A Substitute For Sadness, their second album, Friday evening at Hard Club. Stripped bare, as they had been presented life up till them, Little Friend's songs are gentle, little gems. With band- Sílvio Minnemman (drums), Tiago Serôdio (keyboards), Fernando Sousa (bass), - and guests Mimi Sá Coutinho, co-vocals on Somber Song, Sattelite, Curtains and Hypodermic, and guitarist Ed Rocha Gonçalves on Hypodermic the songs gain the beautiful richness and orchestration that can be heard on the album.

It was a lively, captivating show that transmitted with flying colours both the melancholy as well as warmness of Little Friend's two albums We Will Destroy Each Other A Substitute For Sadness.

The main part of the show ended with the groovy, danceable Too Cool For School followed by a one song encore, Black Sheep from We Will Destroy Each Other.


Opening act Time For T (solo) presented a handful of guitar and voice only songs.

Time For T © Raquel Pinheiro

Little Friend © Raquel Pinheiro

Little Friend © Raquel Pinheiro

Little Friend © Raquel Pinheiro

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