Das Wanderlust + The Retro Spankees + Virile + The Mark 9s |
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One Big Wellington Boot @ Horse & Groom
15 March 2008
Photos & Review by Pete
With Bar Fusion suddenly under new management it required a late change of venue for One Big Welly to salvage this one. Despite its limitations the Horse and Groom offered up it's limited and awkward space and with speakers stacked on the bar as well as the floor it might have been physically constrained but from start to finish the music certainly couldn't be. What a top line up! And no makeweight local bands filling the first half of the night either. Instead two of the most gorgeously lovely and important entities that any music making visitor could fear to be up against and it was evident that much of the buzz was for our bands. Cool to see people from several other local outfits turn up, too - The Small Print, Sires of Nothing, Lipstick Entourage/(Sons of Eve) showing support. The Mark 9s were on first. It's been a while since seeing 'em play, which was at the Biv last year and
Virile, playing what was only their first gig this year, are another local act that have earned widespread
The Retro Spankees from Northampton were so very definitely 'wrong pop' I wasn't a hundred per cent sure whether their sound check was in fact them having started and probably being some way through
And then! Das Wanderlust! From Middlesborough. And in one go they violated everyone in the room - and probably the whole West End of Lincoln - with a monumentally vast synthetic sound of ribcage
More pics at www.shine.clara.co.uk/gigs webspace.
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tonight there was a tiny sceptical part of me wondering if I'd maybe caught them on a good day back then, maybe I'd got carried away, over-estimated how good they were. Yeah, I considered that. But nah, turns out they're better than I remembered. The band have access to muscianship but importantly they don't let that hold them back, it's wildly passionate, daring music making of a sort that is good for the soul. That heavily masculine bass sound of Luke's will one day surely be a thing of legend in these parts. As intensely punky as something from The Stranglers early stuff. Full of dissent aflame with feeling and intelligence. Assistance comes from the fiesty drumming and a mix of sax and electro sounds - whch may have been a bit mismatched in one or two songs but that's as overly picky as I can possibly get. Yeah go on, it's gonna be ten out of ten for the Mark 9s.
respect and a loyal following. Plenty of people were there just to catch them play. Their New York American 60s underground and The Fall influences inform the sounds but don't limit them. It's intense. Even the last minute sound-check was enough to get people off their seats, stood up and cheering them on. So I thought it was a bit of a shame they opened with a slower new song but it wasn't long till it stepped up a gear and the raw energy coming off those chuntering and churning guitars was enough to divert anybody's attention. The trademark rapid chord shifting, fast paced right up and down the neck was enthralling - and like an FA Cup Quarter Final it was end to end stuff - made more gripping by the involving interplay going on between the two guitars. With a fine, curious vocal with loads of character, what more could you want?
their second song. There sure were plenty of odd noises going on, like some fruit-machine jingly tunes, mobile-phone-ringtones oh and a fat budgie's last noisy chirping as it was violenty beaten to death. I think they went too far but whatever then it became clear that they'd really started. I think. Choosing to lose the vain hope of producing music that will ever chart even at number 987 in the top thousand, even accidentally, they determinedly make music for themselves, which paradoxically and almost inevitably is far more interesting for it. (Thank god for bands like these.) Their lo-fi plenty of nonsense attitude extends to technically limited boy/girl vocals that are right nice in fact, which dish up school playground lyrics which then wander off at home time to meet up with back-of-the-school-bus harmonies. Well quirky and although there's no chance of them ever charting there's every chance what they do clearly means a lot to the band themselves - and those lucky enough to get to hear them.
shaking frequency which simultaneously defibrillated all our hearts. All of which was perhaps a little bit invasive but not completely unpleasant. And that was just for starters. Fun?! Yes! And they are from Middlesborough, the home of un-fun. They said it was the last date of their tour and looking at the state of their plimsolls I can believe them. In fact Laura told us a lot in the in-betweeny bits - such as about her charity shop clothes (are they from a dead person?) and her remembering being physically sick in Lincoln on her one non-gigging previous visit after excessive consumption of vodka. Accent wise they didn't sound like they were from up North East - but I think they could only afford a flat up there or some such tragedy. Seeing as how many of the songs were less than two minutes in the despatch there was more opportunity than usual for catching one's breath and a bit of natter - breathless as those frenzied little performances were - and dizzyingly they just kept coming. Some hit home and others missed but in percentage terms they were averaging B+. Armed with buckets and spades of ideas, such as whimsical xylophones mixed with forceful guitar led rocking, wrapped up with all the human warmth of a 15 tog duvet it was an audio adventure. By the end they were forced to do an encore. Yes, forced, they weren't allowed to escape the stage. Hemmed in, they were genuinely uncertain what to do and after several minutes edgily , gratefully, resumed position and negotiations led to the decision to play a song they no longer do (as they've sold out of the singles now) - it was none other than their only single to have actually achieved some Radio One airtime! (Just the once and at midnight, we were informed.) A shame to delete this song from their set as it was top notch bash pop and a perfect finish for the night. Wow.This page was last updated Monday, 11 January 2010
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