Vile Vile Creatures
Star & Garter, Manchester, 19/1/07.
Went up to Manchester Friday to catch up with and see the "creatures" (he!)
I met Jenny and Sian at the Gossip gig last Nov. It turned out I had a photo of Jenny on my phone from the Erase Errata gig in Leeds last year. She was the lucky girl who got handed Jenny Hoyston's guitar during the encore.
They have their own band called Vile Vile Creatures, and I promised to go and see them when the chance arose. This is the result of said chance.
VVC came on, Jen on guitar Sian on bass and David on drums. They play good loud punkish material with a good off kilter beat. A major plus here is that they really enjoy playing their music, are enthusiastic and energetic. Jen leaps about the stage almost "Carrie-esqe". David is an excellent drummer and plays some good off-kilter rhythms, and works his ass off. It works, Jen and David are the eccentrics and Sian is the one who holds the whole thing together, which is right. They played a Cave (Birthday Party) cover and Jen turned into Nick Cave singing sideways into the mic, great stuff. At one stage Jenny picks up a megaphone, plays her guitar with it then leapt off stage onto the floor singing thru the megaphone. In all I really enjoyed them entertaining stuff. Thanks people.
Fake Tan, the first band on. They were ok, the main thing here was the lead singer/guitarist was far more confident as a singer than a guitarist. The bass player was excellent she really held the band together, her fretwork was superb almost played the bass as lead at times. Think Brace in a yellow jump suit, perhaps not.
Went up to Manchester Friday to catch up with and see the "creatures" (he!)
I met Jenny and Sian at the Gossip gig last Nov. It turned out I had a photo of Jenny on my phone from the Erase Errata gig in Leeds last year. She was the lucky girl who got handed Jenny Hoyston's guitar during the encore.
They have their own band called Vile Vile Creatures, and I promised to go and see them when the chance arose. This is the result of said chance.
VVC came on, Jen on guitar Sian on bass and David on drums. They play good loud punkish material with a good off kilter beat. A major plus here is that they really enjoy playing their music, are enthusiastic and energetic. Jen leaps about the stage almost "Carrie-esqe". David is an excellent drummer and plays some good off-kilter rhythms, and works his ass off. It works, Jen and David are the eccentrics and Sian is the one who holds the whole thing together, which is right. They played a Cave (Birthday Party) cover and Jen turned into Nick Cave singing sideways into the mic, great stuff. At one stage Jenny picks up a megaphone, plays her guitar with it then leapt off stage onto the floor singing thru the megaphone. In all I really enjoyed them entertaining stuff. Thanks people.
Fake Tan, the first band on. They were ok, the main thing here was the lead singer/guitarist was far more confident as a singer than a guitarist. The bass player was excellent she really held the band together, her fretwork was superb almost played the bass as lead at times. Think Brace in a yellow jump suit, perhaps not.
Unfortunately I had to leave to get the train before Shrag came on but in all a good night. I said my goodbyes to David and Sian (couldn't find Jenny) and left.
Oh! one thing, Sian the S-K sticker on the back of your bass guitar? shame on you. Everyone in the world knows it should be on the front.
posted by Slight Male Coyote a life in the day of at Sunday, January 21, 2007
3 Comments:
... and on a bass guitar is a bit weird. Which s-k sticker was it?
I've left shows on more than a few occasions where I either have never heard of the headliner or just didn't care for them. It always feels a bit weird to leave before the headliner but a lot of the bands I love often are the opener or middle in the lineup.
It was the Woods "blue dot" sticker.
It was a shame I had to leave b4 the end but I saw the creatures which was why I was there. A good night though.
hey, I got to hear VVC on myspace and ended up adding them. I like their sound a lot!
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