Friday, August 18, 2006
Welcome to the world of financial ruin...
In many ways Screwball Cabaret last night was a huge success. Unfortunately, there was hardly anyone there to see it so it was a bit of a financial disaster and the atmosphere wasn't as good as it could have been. I am not sure whether losing the money is worse than being a bit embarassed at not having a big crowd there for the bands or not.
It was great to see The Palestinians (dressed in Monks habits, I'll get the pics off my phone to post when I have access to the necessary cable...) back on stage. It was like they'd never been away! I thought they were really really good.
Three Litre made use of some childrens toy instruments and an ironing board in their set which sounded really great other than the extremely irritating fact that the venue had booked a band to rehearse into the room behind the quiet stage! Absolutely unbelievable. Graham was as amusing as ever, my personal highlight was the updated lyrics for Girl From the Industry "with a thin lizzy button on her record bag, and Russel Brand's jism dripping from her vag...". Is that how you spell jism? Not a word I write down very often. I suspect Graham will know.
The Hundred Handed I liked, but what crowd was there didn't really seem to take to them, which was a shame. They had some technical difficulties, the bass DI xlr lead was a bit dodgy... and I don't think that helped matters. On the plus side, it did give us a chance to use Rob's excellent Dalek compere malfunction track. Speaking of which, the Dalek compere idea worked really well, by the end people were really joining in with the (pre recorded) compere banter and cheering when requested etc. Rob did a great job making the clips sound great, and really funny and Rich did a nice job animating it too.
Through Snowy Static were as good as they sound on their myspace. Those kids should really go far. Fantastic voices, great songs. Really excellent stuff.
And to cap the evening off, we had Shorty who were incredible. Everyone was dancing and cheering, the band are ultra tight, funky, funny, they rock and their vocal work is really excellent. Really nice bunch, easy to work with and professional too. I can't recommend them highly enough.
http://www.myspace.com/throughsnowystatic
http://www.myspace.com/threelitre
http://www.myspace.com/thepalestinians
http://myspace.com/hundredhanded
http://www.myspace.com/shortyonline
It was great to see The Palestinians (dressed in Monks habits, I'll get the pics off my phone to post when I have access to the necessary cable...) back on stage. It was like they'd never been away! I thought they were really really good.
Three Litre made use of some childrens toy instruments and an ironing board in their set which sounded really great other than the extremely irritating fact that the venue had booked a band to rehearse into the room behind the quiet stage! Absolutely unbelievable. Graham was as amusing as ever, my personal highlight was the updated lyrics for Girl From the Industry "with a thin lizzy button on her record bag, and Russel Brand's jism dripping from her vag...". Is that how you spell jism? Not a word I write down very often. I suspect Graham will know.
The Hundred Handed I liked, but what crowd was there didn't really seem to take to them, which was a shame. They had some technical difficulties, the bass DI xlr lead was a bit dodgy... and I don't think that helped matters. On the plus side, it did give us a chance to use Rob's excellent Dalek compere malfunction track. Speaking of which, the Dalek compere idea worked really well, by the end people were really joining in with the (pre recorded) compere banter and cheering when requested etc. Rob did a great job making the clips sound great, and really funny and Rich did a nice job animating it too.
Through Snowy Static were as good as they sound on their myspace. Those kids should really go far. Fantastic voices, great songs. Really excellent stuff.
And to cap the evening off, we had Shorty who were incredible. Everyone was dancing and cheering, the band are ultra tight, funky, funny, they rock and their vocal work is really excellent. Really nice bunch, easy to work with and professional too. I can't recommend them highly enough.
http://www.myspace.com/throughsnowystatic
http://www.myspace.com/threelitre
http://www.myspace.com/thepalestinians
http://myspace.com/hundredhanded
http://www.myspace.com/shortyonline
# posted by Mike @ 13:43 
