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Selling out within 20 minutes, touts reportedly selling tickets for as much as £90 �" not many sets have been anticipated as much in 2009 as this performance by 23-year-old minor phenomenon Zach Condon and his band of compatriots that make up Beirut.

The February release of double-EP-not-really-a-new-album ‘March of the Zapotec/Holland’ may have been greeted with a pretty lukewarm reception by various circles of critics, but tonight is nothing less than a celebration of a man who has an enviable ability to seamlessley merge Eastern European and French Folk with Western pop and make it sound brilliant.

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