ChrisCWOLF & CUB live!
June 27th 2008 00:57
Wolf & Cub
The Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Thursday 26th June 26, 2008.
Concert review
Seeing this South Aussie four-piece is like paying a visit to the dentist. Just lean back, open your mouth slightly, and let the over-powering beat hammer the plaque off your teeth.
With two drummers, an over-charged bass and a blazing lead guitar, this is not a band for the weak-hearted, yet perfect if you actually happen to have heart failure.
They kicked off last night's show in the same fashion as Homebake 2006, a long instrumental jam to get themselves and the crowd warmed up. In fact, to describe them in short, I would call them the perfect garage jam-band.
Lead singer and guitarist Joel Byrne understands the band’s strengths perfectly. He seems to realise that by being a part of such a power-packed group, his lyrics simply get swallowed, so his vocals are more used for atmosphere rather than meaning. In fact, he spends as much time grunting, groaning, wailing and wallowing as he does stringing incomprehensible sentences together, but that suits the band’s style perfectly as they are more concerned with the vibe and the feel rather than any specific rock n roll message about love or sex or, love or sex.
You get the feeling they are students of rock, with touches of Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, U2 and Wolfmother getting rammed like a backward head-butt into the mix with some more tribalistic and powerful beats. It all makes for a sound that, even on a double-dare, you simply couldn’t stand there and not tap your feet.
Overall, it’s almost like this beat-driven band channel into some primitive impulse that makes you want to communicate something back, like a pounding of your chest or a simple spontaneous waving of your hands in the air. And unlike so many computer-generated sampled-sound groups, these guys don’t even have to ask you to.
Verdict: Awesome. Ooo yeahhhhh-hahahaaaaaaaaaa!
The Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Thursday 26th June 26, 2008.
Concert review
Seeing this South Aussie four-piece is like paying a visit to the dentist. Just lean back, open your mouth slightly, and let the over-powering beat hammer the plaque off your teeth.
With two drummers, an over-charged bass and a blazing lead guitar, this is not a band for the weak-hearted, yet perfect if you actually happen to have heart failure.
They kicked off last night's show in the same fashion as Homebake 2006, a long instrumental jam to get themselves and the crowd warmed up. In fact, to describe them in short, I would call them the perfect garage jam-band.
Lead singer and guitarist Joel Byrne understands the band’s strengths perfectly. He seems to realise that by being a part of such a power-packed group, his lyrics simply get swallowed, so his vocals are more used for atmosphere rather than meaning. In fact, he spends as much time grunting, groaning, wailing and wallowing as he does stringing incomprehensible sentences together, but that suits the band’s style perfectly as they are more concerned with the vibe and the feel rather than any specific rock n roll message about love or sex or, love or sex.
You get the feeling they are students of rock, with touches of Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, U2 and Wolfmother getting rammed like a backward head-butt into the mix with some more tribalistic and powerful beats. It all makes for a sound that, even on a double-dare, you simply couldn’t stand there and not tap your feet.
Overall, it’s almost like this beat-driven band channel into some primitive impulse that makes you want to communicate something back, like a pounding of your chest or a simple spontaneous waving of your hands in the air. And unlike so many computer-generated sampled-sound groups, these guys don’t even have to ask you to.
Verdict: Awesome. Ooo yeahhhhh-hahahaaaaaaaaaa!
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