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Damien Rice: Yes, No and Maybe

I was really looking forward to this one. The first odd thing, especially having heard he gets a bit wild live was the sign at the bar saying it would close before he came on stage which had the obvious result of people buying loads of drinks and a slow moving queue
Against a backdrop of changing strong solid coloured lights and with just coloured down lighting the 4 person band arrived... Cello, BAss (acoustic and electric) DR on guitar apart from one song and a female singer.
Over a strange audience who appeared unwilling to stop talking apart from those who wanted to take continual camera/phone pictures the band set out its stall and built a degree of momentum, but I found it curiously one (no, two) paced.
The slow ones were delicate and the noisey ones had one... ONE... effect which was the huge distortion that erupted out of the PA.
During the HUGE coda/chorus of repeated "FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU" it was tremendous, as if Joh Cale had gone straight from recording White Light WHite HEat to producing Tim BUckley, but it became oddly limliting as the band had no other sound to use. Why he doesn't use a bigger band is beyond me.
AFter 1 3/4 hours the cello player got to sing a song and the rest left the stage. She sang On The Radio (yes that one) for a friend in the audience and she can't carry a melody. The band returned forr one song and then started a long chat about being the last night of the Australian leg of the tour and how Fionn Regan (the support act) was going to join them for a while.UNfortunately he had gone to the toilet so we all waited. Then drinks were brought out and we aited. Fionn came out, picked up a guitar and we waited, then he had a drink, put the guitar down and sat at the piano. And we waited. Then he got up poured drinks for the band and we waited. By now we had had no music for 5 minutes and I didn't wait any longer but headed for the door as were a steady stream of others. On the way home I realised what had happened.
They had hit Queensland summer for the first time and had been knocked over by the humidity. Probably resorting to a few drinks which had gone straight to their heads and there goes the gig. When I got home at 11.30 it was 28C/85F and 72% humidity.
So not bad, but get some better lights and for heaven's sake get a band. IT will open up so much if he were just to get in one other player who could move from guitar to keyboards.


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Topic - Damien Rice: Yes, No and Maybe - dave c 13:12:03 02/25/07 (2)


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