Pumping Falling Off The Lavender Bridge in anticipation of Lightspeed Champion at the East Brunswick Club tonight, I realise I'm a bit behind the times given his more recent releases. Plural. Then I notice I was supposed to leave 20mins ago and hope I turned the lava lamp off as I skip out the door.
Bleeding Knees Club are up first and I notice they have found the drum kit they put a call out over the internet for earlier that day. Although as they joke a couple if songs in it's a bit on the tiny side. I'd heard good things about these two young chaps but not any of their stuff before tonight. They're a nice opening act for Lightspeed Champion given their current experience as naive youth as LC often sings of.
It's a short and sharp set, and the music is fun but not exciting tonight. Worth another try another time with a better crowd though.
The curtains are pulled back to Dev alone with guitar, long hair flowing, equally long flowing tassels from his cowboy shirt and a cover of the Divinyls' Boys In Town. Hilarious. I didn't know this was solo show though. Shame.
The crowd is reasonably packed back to the sound panel then rather sparse. People must still be recovering or broke from NYE be missing this show. Losers.
As a solo show the back up tape makes a couple of appearances but as much as Dev switches between instruments (acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard and a few others) and struts the stage it's nowhere near the full band show I saw a few years back and frankly a bit underwhelming for a Lightspeed Champion show.
He picks it up with a new song (apparently up on Myspace for months now, not that anyone has used Myspace in two years though), Galaxy of the Lost and another song which includes a distorted thrash session into a plucked guitar solo (I should probably know this song given the crowd reaction).
Dev finishes the set asking for anyone to sing along if they know the song and advising how brilliant the new Disney on ice show in Melbourne is before jumping into the crowd for the finale.
There doesn't need to be an encore to this set but there is, but after exiting stage left (where there is no exit) and he puts it to the crowd to choose tracks to play. They do, he obliges and that's the night.
-jon
Published at TheDwarf.com.au
Bleeding Knees Club are up first and I notice they have found the drum kit they put a call out over the internet for earlier that day. Although as they joke a couple if songs in it's a bit on the tiny side. I'd heard good things about these two young chaps but not any of their stuff before tonight. They're a nice opening act for Lightspeed Champion given their current experience as naive youth as LC often sings of.
It's a short and sharp set, and the music is fun but not exciting tonight. Worth another try another time with a better crowd though.
The curtains are pulled back to Dev alone with guitar, long hair flowing, equally long flowing tassels from his cowboy shirt and a cover of the Divinyls' Boys In Town. Hilarious. I didn't know this was solo show though. Shame.
The crowd is reasonably packed back to the sound panel then rather sparse. People must still be recovering or broke from NYE be missing this show. Losers.
As a solo show the back up tape makes a couple of appearances but as much as Dev switches between instruments (acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard and a few others) and struts the stage it's nowhere near the full band show I saw a few years back and frankly a bit underwhelming for a Lightspeed Champion show.
He picks it up with a new song (apparently up on Myspace for months now, not that anyone has used Myspace in two years though), Galaxy of the Lost and another song which includes a distorted thrash session into a plucked guitar solo (I should probably know this song given the crowd reaction).
Dev finishes the set asking for anyone to sing along if they know the song and advising how brilliant the new Disney on ice show in Melbourne is before jumping into the crowd for the finale.
There doesn't need to be an encore to this set but there is, but after exiting stage left (where there is no exit) and he puts it to the crowd to choose tracks to play. They do, he obliges and that's the night.
-jon
Published at TheDwarf.com.au
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