Free gig at a new venue with Poppy’s
squeeze Tom as the headlining drummer. I meet Pete in the pub and after a
couple of vegan burgers (one each) Nick turns up, long time no see, and he goes
for the same. I see Tom at the bar and have a quick chat.
Drummer Eats Everything. First up are
VEINS (I think – that’s what the poster says with times in the venue). The
sound isn’t great and the drummer drowns out most things that you can hear. The
music is not particularly interesting although the bassist is good. Or at least
a lot better than me. They are a little bit BSP anthemic but when they play a
dodgy gig as they have been known to do.
Echo Eats Everything. Next up are MOHIT
(I don’t think they’re Veins). They are very good with a ridiculous amount of
echo on both guitar and vocals. Which is a problem when the singer’s chatting
the punters as you can’t understand a word but which is very good when he’s
playing songs. Maybe the echo but they have a surfy psychedelic Floydy sound to
them. The singer guitarist is in shorts so maybe he’s also heavily influenced
by the Beach Boys. Not sure they wore shorts at gigs but this guy looked set
for summer despite our predicted heatwave in London not appearing. The drummer
was excellent really showing off how to vary a beat. Bassist reminded me a
little of Norman Watt-Roy with a rocky but very funky rhythm which got a fair
few feet shifting about and possibly a few lifting off the floor. Guitar varied
from sharp strumming to out there psych and touched on hell for leatherness.
Great stuff. Pete’s off after this due to tiredness brought on by
overexcitement abroad over the weekend.
Noise Eats Everything. Our headliners
and KOYO. They have a pychedelic heavy rock sound with some solid songs.
Unfortunately the Curse of the Sounds that pestered the first band has hit
again and the general noise drowns out the undoubtedly good musicians. Shame. I
don’t think it was just me as Nick thought the same and the band did seem to
spend a lot of time gesticulating at the mixing desk to push up or down
monitors. Hopefully will be better this coming weekend at Live at Leeds. We sneak
out before the end as it’s getting late and we both have a cross London journey
. Pleasant tube back with Nick where we properly catch up.
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| Possibly Veins |
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| Probably Mohit |
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| Definitely Koyo |
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