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CMU Approved
Approved: Dan Mangan
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 9 November 2009
So, I rushed across Dubai on Saturday night to try and see Canadian singer songwriter Dan Mangan do his thing. But, having spent most of the day telling everyone how I’d yet to come across one of these famous Dubai traffic jams all the locals talked about, our cab driver drove straight into deadlock.
That, added to by an eight minute discussion with our driver, on arrival at the Festival City venue, as to whether this large shopping centre was really the place we were meant to be (“we’re looking for a lagoon with a stage in it, right?”, our cab driver looked perplexed), meant that by the time we found the right stage Dan was reaching the close of his set. Still, we’d get to hear the set closer ‘Robots’, that was certain. Except, wait, what’s that in the distance? Oh, the tea time call to prayer at the shopping mall’s prayer room. Sorry Dan, Mr Sound Guy says, however good your Robots may be, Allah wouldn’t want you drowning out the prayers.
I will miss Mangan’s London set at the Canadian Blast event at Puregroove Records on West Smithfield in London tonight (from 7pm) not because of jams or prayer, but academic commitments. But you guys should go and enjoy his cleverly-penned toe-tapping sing-along repertoire when he plays with fellow Canada-based musician Kae Sun at the record store tonight. Or, if your traffic reporter or god of choice says otherwise, join me by streaming said quality tunes on this here MySpace.
