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Gig
Reviews
Modey
Lemon / Part
Chimp
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93 Feet East, London - 26/05/04 |
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I
hate London crowds. A bunch of yuppie poseurs standing
around in their "vintage-clothing" chic
nursing bottles of Corona in one hand and camera-mobiles
in the other. Occasionally they'll nod in approval
if the band does something that "Face" magazine
might like.
London crowds don't deserve bands like these. Bands like
these don't deserve London crowds.
Part Chimp deserve 500 awe-struck Aerogramme and Cave In obsessives,
crammed into the Cockpit in Leeds, salivating at every squeeze
of the Big Muff and groaning at every frenzied masturbatory
strum of the curiously twitchy bass player (a compelling centre-figure).
Part Chimp deserve Sonic Youth anoraks who truly appreciate
just how difficult it is to make that Telecaster feedback when
you've fashioned a pick-up coil out of a comb.
Part Chimp also need some better songs.
Modey Lemon deserve the 1970s. People don't have the
same reverence for rock and roll music today. Then, it was
a religion, rather than a commodity. Plus, there was a lot
of acid going around and people seemed a lot less concerned
about their particular brand of footwear.
They must stare into the vapid faces of these approval-seeking,
polite young English men and women and wonder exactly who they're
doing this for. Because no one looks like they're enjoying
it. Standing like sandbags, they clap at the right points and
they cheer at the right points, but their hollers are hollow
and their cheers are cheerless. There should be grimy, smelly
people of indistinguishable age flailing their...
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