psydoll Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Argh I spoke too soon! Tonight contained everyone's second favourite topic - utterly shite bands! Thus ruining my fantastic hit record and threatening to loom large over a fantastic few days and dampen my spirits! Does our intrepid Snarfalike make it through a night of obvious lyrics, horrifying band names and heckling genius having to be restrained?!? Read on dear traveller! Read on!T Break heats are always a bit of a mixed bag. Although this is the first one I've attended I can recall reading many lineups for these things and thinking that some really DREADFUL bands get through into these things. Hopefully the system weeds them out. I've only been to one TITP so far and didn't really check out any of the T Break Stage apart from Allergo and Certain Death but I already knew I liked them.I missed Draw thanks to hunting for cash machines in Edinburgh. A fruitless task I often find. I am later proved right to be relieved that this has happened as their fans seemed like twats.I resolve to abandon my cash machine-related problems to head back the the venue. Mainly because I knew Small Enclosed Area are on next and I wish not to miss any of them. I do miss the first song and blunder about in the darkness of the balcony level during their second song acting not unlike a newborn hedgehog with my spiky hair and waving arms in the blinding darkness. My zombie impressions appear to go un-noticed by the masses lurking in the dark nursing their over-priced pints in plastic glasses and I eventually make my way down to the front of the stage. The sound's even better than the night before and the drums actually feel like I'm being punched in the chest. It was nice seeing SEA up on a stage when I thought about it as all the other times I've seen them have been pretty much on floor level. More space means a bit more rocking out than usual and the dross following them makes them seem even heavier than the previous night. Ross also manages to foil the official photographer nearly every time she tries to take a shot of his face so I'm hoping for a big photo of Ross' arse when the review of the show appears...Playtone are up next. I don't think I can really say anything good about them. Shite name, amusing bass player with upturned collar and 'rock bass stance' that he seemed to have to strike before playing any notes, RUBBISH lyrics! "It's been a while/since I've seen you smile" was a memorable highlight as I recall. Tawngy plasticy sounding acoustic guitar and a frontman with that 'annoyance' factor where he seems to be really sure his band are amazing when they're generic as you can be really. Amusement factor aside they were shocking. A crime if they go through.Douglas Kay is up next and plays some quite nice songs that he describes as bittersweet. He seems like quite a nice, camp chap so I won't be too nasty. He was boring though and the fact that he had his website written on his guitar narked me a bit for some reason. The set also made me feel very tired but at least he didn't have many obnoxious fans!The Abdominal Showmen then performed some crazy Korg-rap kinda set with Scottish rapping which was sadly mostly unintelligible for me [i'm left wondering if it's the sound or the voice that the dude's using] at least apart from a line about Matthew Kelly being out the back playing with the kids which raised some chucklage on my part. It was at least entertaining and woke me up but I've always despised that "wacky factor" that some bands seem to be going for and I remember Mo*Ho*Bish*O*Pi had those little lights on their head like the bassplayer did and I got sick of them pretty quick. I don't think they played similar music mind at all. My favourite part was when the frontman whacked the roof with his cane by mistake but at least he laughed about it. Perhaps this band would be like what would happen if the Videos had parents that decided to form a band to mentally scar and mildly mock their kids band. Had the biggest dancing crowd along with them. Does that count? Do the judges count how many people in the audience are going to T In The Park? I'm intrigued to see how these guys went down...My first viewing of the Stacatto Set is a pleasing one. [i'm trying to keep this short as it's getting really early and I'm still pissing about on here writing rubbiss] All three guys are talented musicians and it's not really the kind of music that I expected this band to play for some reason. Some phenomenal drumming from Jim at times and a distinct lack of shouts of "He's a cunt!" from either side of the room. Stupid "I'm in love with the band Draw!" heckling is heard but that's rubbiss. If you're going to heckle at least have the decency to swear min.Overall I enjoyed the T Break heat I guess - the sets are short so it keeps things quite fresh as the bands change over but there's always the chance of having to watch a short set of utter drivel but as they say if you've a hunger for the band equivalents of delicious pieces of sweetcorn then you might well have to dig through a lot of shite to find them.7 Yus Mins out of 10 but only because of Playtone and Draw [or at least their fans] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Temple Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 All credit to you for attending, especially on your own, and for the feedback. Are you doing it for the love, or are you in an official capacity of some sort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Stax Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 All credit to you for attending' date=' especially on your own, and for the feedback. Are you doing it for the love, or are you in an official capacity of some sort?[/quote']Adam was amongst friends... Top effort on the review front though... I had all but lost interest after SEA and had to remind myslef that we were on soon. Just got my adrenalin up and had to stop... Lost my bass drum pedal This reads as if SEA made me lose interest. Nuh! I thought they were mighty and they gave me goose bumps (fact) on the first big rifftastic build up! Be a sin if they don't go through...Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest valley69 Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I remember seeing turning 13 playing at liquid rooms for t break and thinking that the majority of the bands there were utter bollocks. Glad to hear Aberdeens representatives went down well.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 All credit to you for attending' date=' especially on your own, and for the feedback. Are you doing it for the love, or are you in an official capacity of some sort?[/quote']Why'd you assume I went down on my own anyways? Seemed rude not to attend after the amount of rock SEA provided in Glasgow the night before and was a good chance to experience a new venue and finally catch Stacatto Set so in general I'm thoroughly glad I did just go for it. Not recommended for the faint of heart though - I hadn't really thought through that a lot of bad indie fans go to TITP so a lot of bad indie bands would be applying for T Break Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Temple Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Why'd you assume I went down on my own anyways? Didn't assume, mistakenly guessed from the use of the pronoun "I" rather than "we" in your detailed account. Thought perhaps you were in the Central Belt anyway, and decided to go along. Further credit to you for making the special effort to go down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Credit all round!I didn't like to say 'we' in case my opinions were not shared by others. Also just in case my review is picked up by TITP for official use and I can claim sole royalties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxton's Superb Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 all bases covered! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Was truely a fun time there. Biggest/highest stage we have ever been on. Maybe Ross turned his back so he didn't get dizzy with vertigo. It kinda helped my dancing a bit though, off balance-what-the-fuck-is-he-doing kinda thing. Well........thanks to all who showed up to cheer us and stacatto set on. they were ace. 3rd song was my favourite. Lets hope we all (fickle public, stacatto set and ourselves) get through so we can all have a weekend long piss up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 A review of this gig can be found at www.tbreak.co.uk in the Journalism and Photography section. For once we aren't totally slated by the official reviewer, but there were some very lazy comparisons - especially with the mogwai roots part. there were no mogwai influenced parts, or similarities, in any of that set. I think they just latched onto the fact i was wearing a mogwai t-shirt.At least we got described as post rock, then heavy metal. I love that comparison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 results are announced next thurs (26th May) on Vic's Radio 1 show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 i just read my mates drive by's review. all they talked about was what they were wearing! bit shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted May 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 The reviewers still like everyone that plays though it seems.None o' that sitting on the fence shite for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Stax Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I ThoughtAll the bands apart from SEA and SS were ace min! Worthy of repeated listens on my ipod... (aziff)Bonny pic of Ziggy and a vinegar face. I imagine the reviewer liking everything in the whole wide world forever and ever and ever. I mean... Draw?!!!! J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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