 Only just getting in to the Bristol academy, just
before We Are Tokyo are on, and forcing my way
through the very young crowd, mostly scene kids,
with there some of there parents lurking by the
bar and near the back of the room, with such a
young crowd, im feeling very old tonight.
A home gig tonight for this bristol band, performing
there own brand of electro indie rock, while there
sound is well organised with the singer breaking
off from his bass to whack some electric drum
pads next to his mic stand, the sound fails to
inspire, the guitarist is plagued by tuning problems,
which could have been sorted by getting a second
guitar, while tuning was in progress, this broke
up and fluidity to the set, and seemed very unprofessional,
the drumming was standard with the drummer doing
the odd stick trick in between beats, but mainly
the band is pretty much static but comes to life
at the end of the set.
 Filling the stage next is telegraphs, a 5 piece
rock band from brighton with the rock sound that
gets melancholic at times and gets catchy at points
but its performed with great energy, with most
of the band getting around the stage and close
to chaos as they almost run into each other when
there at their most active, but despite the energy,
the songs performed get going but then never seem
to peak leaving me and some of the auidence feeling
slighty robbed after each song is over, but on
a whole its a good performance which is well recieved
by the majority of the young and now sweaty crowd
as the auidence is getting bigger and closer to
the stage to get in a good position for innerpartysystem.
When i first heard don't stop, i honestly thought
that it was a new release from pendulum, but after
a while and some investigating, i found it to
be a band from the US called innerpartysystem,
after buying the album and being pleasantly surprised
at how fucking good it was, and why it had taken
so bloody long to discover this band. when there
about to start, and to much to my dismay Patrick
Nissley, the singer, asked for the front lights
to be turned down, i was in for a tough night
in the almost non existent photography pit, but
all the stage monitors have been removed, which
gave me a bit of room to work with, but it was
still a nightmare to shoot, due to all the lights
on the stage being behind the  band, anyway enough
dribble, the show was i have to say, fan fucking
tastic, and what they were doing on a such a small
stage, is beyond me they should be on the main
stage in the academy, they pretty much performed
the self titled album and a track off there download
EP, the songs performed such as obsession (my
friends favorite track), new poetry, die tonight
live forever, don't stop as the encore, alot of
the tracks differed to the album performances,
which for some reason baffled the crowd, the tracks
had some of the beats slowed down and some parts
of the songs were extended, this showing great
skill and showing how much of a great live band
they are, from going from the basis of the album
and then expanding and extending the tracks, is
just awesome to behold, i recommend that you catch
them in smaller gigs before paying a lot more
when they get a alot bigger than they are now.
Innerpartysystem 5/5
Telegrapths 3/5
We Are Tokyo 2/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
