![]() Lewis book: humourless and full of Christian guilt. Consequentially the band will never sound like anything but a C.S. Such a voice has the advantage of being instantly emotive, inviting, unthreatening and confessional but it also has disadvantage of being unable convey any of the cool emotions like lust or anger. The singer possesses one of those squeaky voices which warbles and struggles up and down scales in a way that says ‘I’m fragile’. On some of the more melancholy numbers they sounded like American Football, the one Emo band I like. They played mid-tempo, mid-90s, mid-American Emo-Indie. The lank-haired buoys on the sound-desk done good. He is a better musician than I’ll ever be, so no disrespect to him: it’s just that I’ve seen people perform those songs just as well before. I don’t think this kid should care about that – he will make a shitload of cash playing Festival dates for the next 20 years. Then, as the classic blues numbers continued (Jimi, Johnson, self-composed stuff with Led Zep riffs), I got bored. ![]() The kid had some clout: I was extremely impressed. Daisy, whom I assume was the leader singer and guitarist, was a slight young lad of around 17, who wailed the blues forlornly in a Claptonesque manner. Things slowed down somewhat for DUF – an amalgam of band members’ initials Daisy, Ursula and Fanny. Instead of throwing their underwear on the stage, these babes were so INTO IT that they took off all their clothes and threw their hot naked bodies onto the stage, whereupon they writhed around on the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy and delight, screaming ‘rock on! Rock on!’It was then I knew that this was the best day. From the moment they starting playing all these BABES flooded into the venue and just started getting FRESH. These guys played Post-Rock of a very different kind: the super-rad kind. Which translates to ‘Voorhout’ in Dutch, which means ‘foreskin’ in German. Having seen a troubling number of Post-Rock bands in my time, I think that Glimlicht carried the PS flag with aplomb. These are: repetitiousness, inability to engage with the audience/put on a show (they were seated FFS!), an inability to sustain the perfect loud/quiet dynamic required of Post-Rock, humourlessness. The maladies from which their music suffered are maladies with which all bands of their genre are plagued. They were nice lads, and great musicians. Tom suggested it was in homage to Melt Banana, but I doubt this, for no reason whatsoever. Their other guitarist had either severe-acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or ac quired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as he was forced to wear a face-mask throughout Glimlicht’s performance. ![]() And he had TWO Books of Rock from which he read some spoken-word shit about islands. Knowing his dad would buy him another one, guitarist #2 attacked his guitar with a screwdriver and a violin bow. Two drum kits (one digital, one analogue), cymbals made of two cymbals stacked on top of each other, pedal-boards the size of my big fat schlong, keyboards, two basses, two guitars. One of these guys’ fathers has loads of money and has selflessly spent it on the band (sound like anyone we know? – self ed.). The Bands? Het Glimlicht, Hyperbowl, DUF. The date? 30 th of April, otherwise known as Koninginnedag. The place? MusicOn situated on the event-horizon of the black hole known as “Suburban Den Haag”. Walt Adamczyk, Zoie Alandra, TJ Bordelon, Phil Britt, Phil Chu, Brian Johnson, Christine Kaneshige, Jon Kranc, Mike Peterson, Al Podrasky, Aaron Pulkka, Wendy Rosenthal, Cary Sandvig, Dave Spencer, Mike Swinney, Ed Trillo, Gene Turnbow, Phil ZuccoBuilt with the Unity game engine, and Unity Analytics from Unity Technologies, MacXWare Font Library, Etcetera plugin from Prime31 Studios, iTween from pixelplacement, Localization Package from M2H Studios, Finger Gestures from Fatal Frog Software, and the original HyperBowl assets from Hyper Entertainment.HyperBowl is a registered trademark of Hyper Entertainment, Plc.My distaste and distrust for other people’s music abated last week, which resulted in my attendance at a gig. Bowl the eerie and otherwordly settings of the original HyperBowl Classic lane!Swipe up on the screen to push the ball forward, swipe left or right to push it horizontally, down to roll backwards! Feel free to explore the scenery, but watch your time, and don't gutter! Double-tap the timer to pause.Visit and our Facebook page for the latest news, reviews and other original and all-new lanes!The original HyperBowl team:J.
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