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Anyway they suffered from the usual sound problems. Sometimes I feel like rounding up every single guitarist and soundman I can find and beating them around the skull until they realise that treble is as important as anything else and therefore not a bad thing or a taboo subject. They should all be forced to sell their tube amps and play transistors for a while. "but you can hear the warm rounded tube sound on the recording" Yeah, but live it sounds like mud because you haven't got a fucking clue how to set up your amp you dick.
It's getting to be ridiculous. Mumbling, muffled bassy growl from all the guitars and then crystal clear vocals snare and cymbals soaring miles above and out in front of the rest of it. Don't set your guitar up in isolation for fuck sake. It may sound too "hi-endy" to you, but, the bass will fill in that end of the spectrum so if you set it up without the bass there it ends up sounding fucking pointless.
Anyway that aside they played the two most straight ahead and boringly "eh...punky?" songs first but then hit their stride. Only played for 25 minutes, it was an album launch so they had loads of mates there and clearly didn't give a fuck. Decent enough though, if they turn up in Dublin they're worth a look.
Saw them in a small venue in Dalston. Where the fucking wall fell apart and a huge chunk of plaster fell on me and my lady's head during the second half of the liverpool match. (They were steeped by the way. Why can't they manage to actually play for 90 minutes without looking like nervous wrecks ?)
Anyway they suffered from the usual sound problems. Sometimes I feel like rounding up every single guitarist and soundman I can find and beating them around the skull until they realise that treble is as important as anything else and therefore not a bad thing or a taboo subject. They should all be forced to sell their tube amps and play transistors for a while. "but you can hear the warm rounded tube sound on the recording" Yeah, but live it sounds like mud because you haven't got a fucking clue how to set up your amp you dick.
It's getting to be ridiculous. Mumbling, muffled bassy growl from all the guitars and then crystal clear vocals snare and cymbals soaring miles above and out in front of the rest of it. Don't set your guitar up in isolation for fuck sake. It may sound too "hi-endy" to you, but, the bass will fill in that end of the spectrum so if you set it up without the bass there it ends up sounding fucking pointless.
Anyway that aside they played the two most straight ahead and boringly "eh...punky?" songs first but then hit their stride. Only played for 25 minutes, it was an album launch so they had loads of mates there and clearly didn't give a fuck. Decent enough though, if they turn up in Dublin they're worth a look.
