I Am Kloot/Turin Brakes & Budapest/Tom Mcrae
Before someone turns up at this site thinking that it's for clever people who can read code, I'll regail you all with my review of "dumb and dumber" because it was on tv last night. Except I won't because it sucked, and I worked this out from the first 10-15 minutes. So instead you'll be treated to a live extravaganza! For last week I saw not one, not two, but FOUR WHOLE BANDS! over 2 days! It's like a mini festival! Anyway...
Where really quite good. They where opening for Turin Brakes and where very very amusing. They played all the stuff you'd want (Twist, To You, Storm Warning, 86 tv's etc...) and some new stuff which was quite nice, but best of all was the wittiness of mr. lead singer in responding to the heckles from the auidence. He was tres amusing. I would go into detail, but as there are 4 bands to review, I won't.
Where awesome! Really they where! They played fantapulously, with lots of extended gratuituos acoustic soloing and even more witty banter! Example...
Some Stupid Kid With Stupid High Pitched Voice: "We love you! I WANT YOUR BABIES!!"
Olly: "who is that? Kermit the frog? She needs some throat sweets or something!"
Gale: "you know what she needs? she needs some tunes!"
Drummer: does cymbal crash
Hilarious! What was even better was that I had some tunes, and threw them at Gale, and he thanked me. Bless. So yes, very good, as is the new album
So the next day I saw...
Budapest
If you know who
Halo are then imagine them, but less muse like and more acoustic like. So quite good in a sort of way. They lacked stage banter like the others, but the keyboardist looked so happy I'll let them off.
Was awesome. Best live perfomance this year me thinks, as he was slightly better than {martingrech} earlier this year. He played very well, had crazy eyes, sung beautifully and told us all excellent stories, about Tony Blair, Keeping his temper and sharks. The only one repeatable on a family site like this one was the shark one though. Basically...
"So this song is dedicated to my friend, I only have one see, as she's afraid of sharks. She lives in London and never goes to aquariums, so she's really got no reason to worry, unless of course a really big seagull picks one up and drops it on her head. This song isn't about sharks though."
His tony blair one was better, but it really was quite profane.
Go Tom Mcrae!
Oh for all those who care he played "cut her hair" "A & B's (he did a cool jig in the breakdown bit too!)" 2nd law, Lightning, Bubblegum, bloodless, sao paulo rain from the old stuff, and lots of excellent new one as well
Hooray!
marc lambert
saw all 4 bands also!! all did gigs in portsmouth that i went to. think best was tom mcrae, hard to choose between him and turin brakes tho.