Wired 12 Dec 2009 review
The Naturals
Who couldn’t appreciate this band? Their music is so refreshing and just what has been missing from many a music fan’s CD collection. They are a brilliant act live. The layers of vocals, echoing melodic guitars and syncopated drums they create entangle into a musical construction of brilliance, exploding into and dissolving from a wall of sound which is sometimes so discordant, and contains a juxtaposition of such vast aural textures and styles, that you’d think it just shouldn’t work, but it does, so incredibly well. As you can imagine, live, the band members perform and launch themselves around the stage in accordance with this calmly schizophrenic mix of unruly distortion and soothingly haunting melodic segmented sound. They don’t sound like Radiohead, but their musical ingenuity draws comparison. Take advantage of seeing this band locally before the only place you can see them is squinting your eyes eighty yards back from the stage at Reading Festival. And buy their CD ”Adventricle”.
Download and listen to the live tracks:
He’s Got An Eighty Foot Tarantula
more from The Naturals at myspace.com/naturalsmusic
1,2,3&In
1,2,3&In, OneTwoThreeandIn, however you want to write it, this energetic quintet stepped in as Wired heroes to fill a slot which had unfortunately fallen through, and thank god they did because they were flipping fantastic. Their glorious harmonic punk pop energy filled songs blasted into our ears, and our ears were smiling, our feet were hopping and we wanted to know the words so that we could sing along too but we had to make do with just moshing and dancing around in excitement instead. Move over A Day to Remember, move over You Me at Six, Devizes have got some fresh talent who are about to take to the limelight.
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more from 1 2 3 & In at myspace.com/123andin
Yours
Not the first time Yours have blessed the stage of Wired with their musical presence, but first time with new bassist, Nick. Thankfully the brothers have chosen wisely in their new band mate and played tightly as if they had always been a trio. One song which highlighted the set brought on an echo of vocals between Jake on drums and frontman Luke. First song “She’s Got No Home” was a bluesy White Stripes Jack White feeling/manic Pixies-esque Black Francis kind of song. Phil wooed the audience by lending them an array of hats, including a great little leopard print fedora and a santa hat to bring some festivity to the performance. He surprisingly managed to get the hats back at the end of the set. Their sound is pleasingly rocky, laced with blues and little hints of psychobilly, but they could also easily go back to the nineties and go on tour with some grungy indie bands such as Cast and Terrorvision, particularly with catchy rock songs like “Stoned”; if only time travel existed of course.
Download and listen to the live tracks:
more from Yours at myspace.com/yoursmusic
Dining with James
December’s helping of Wired commenced with the usual monthly Saturday night air of excitement at Gloucester Guildhall, waiting for the first act to take to the stage. This time, Dining with James; three quirky looking young lads aged 13, 14 and 15. Armed with jangling guitars, drums, catchy riffs and at times, surprisingly biting vocals for musicians of their age, they soon had the audience dancing about the hall which, being first band of the night, certainly deserves some praise. Song structures throughout the set were varied and the band are willing to take risks outside of the norm, rather than following standard patterns set out by main chart acts of today. If they had to be categorised in relation to another band, then possibly they’d be known as the little brothers of the Arctic Monkeys.
Download and listen to the live tracks:
more from Dining With James at myspace.com/diningwithjames
more photos of the night here
