“You should always enter a gig with no expectations” a Lesson learned by Matthew Hardy.
MEN @ Brudenell Social Club 03/11/2010
MEN consists of that usual line up for an electro-pop band, Short curly haired innocent looking boy, long haired guitar holding boy, and girl holding a mock Gibson Flying V with a variety pedal by her pretty white pumps. The only thing that gives credibility to the line up is that the singer is from Le Tigre, that’s right! The energy filled explosive electro-punk band whose songs spring back in your head like popping-candy-crack. This is where I went wrong, I entered the gig with expectations.
The stage was empty, oh yes it would be far too convenient to have the band on the stage, instead they opted for playing on the dance floor. There must have been only 2 reasons for this:
1) To make it seem like there wasn’t just 50 people in the room
2) To show off their back drop which their “friend so kindly made for us to share”
Apart from nearly puking at that statement, mural that he was referring to seemingly depicted a Carboot-clothes-sale-sponsored-semi-naked-swingers-picnic party. And while they were inaccurately tuning up, we were invited to play a game of “spot the butt-pug”. The tone was set as they tumbled into their first song 'Life Is Half Price (When You're In Love)', with lyrical mediocrity and backing track that would fit over an advert for Vauxhall's new car.
Dressed in costumes from a Kids TV show which never got made, they must have put effort into make their music in the same thread. Using an Apple laptop as CD player for your crap backing track drumbeat doesn’t count as a legitimate instrument, its just lazy, and just plain embarrassing. The final icing on the cake baked by Big Cook Little Cook was the lyrics “If you're dance standing up tall, if you’re dancing you don't fall”. MEN teach lessons that don’t need to be taught, because people that go to gigs are not four and half years old.
Never go into a gig with any expectations, because there is a malicious demon who will ruin your night if you do. Mistakes are made to be learned from, so learn from mine.
Quite harsh.....but very accurate. Just because you're dancing like you have a drummer doesn't make up for the fact you just pressed play on your laptop. Pretty much summed up by the comment "If we had a drummer, they would've gone ba dum dum tsh". If, indeed.
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