We missed the first band (sorry) and arrived just after The Perils had started.
First impressions not good,
"Another slice of Indie landfill"
so to the bar.
Once inside however things improved dramatically. These guys are good at what they do. Each song had a good hook in it somewhere, the vocals were better than expected. The musicianship reasonably good. By the end both of us old codgers had warmed to them. Not likely to buy the album but would happily see them again.
Then Two spot gobi.
Out they come and expectations rise.
A trumpet!
A cello!
What do we have here. Well what we have is blandness. I was hearing Jason Mraz and Trev was hearing Jamiroquai. Why no use of the trumpet, give the guy a solo. And the cello, what's that for, didnt feature at all. Here is a band with two usp's that they massively underused. Sufficiently boring that we left halfway through.
They could do something like "Alone Again Or". They could cover "Walk Away Renee" in its original Left Banke form and instead its just more lightweight funk.
Maybe AWB will be better next Tuesday.
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