Well, last week I went to see these after having been impressed by their latest single on the satellite music channels. It was OK, but not brilliant.
There didn’t seem to be as much variation as you’d expect from a band which wants to be around for a long time, and the two guitarists – although undoubtedly very good – just wanted to showboat most of the time. Playing with their fingers over the top of the fretboard in just about every song, and that kind of thing. Mind you, the audience seemed to want that sort of thing and lapped it up.
The singer has a good voice and if they could get over themselves they have the potential to be a very good rock band.
The keyboard player is a complete prat and offered nothing to the band other than making them look childish. Where I was standing he was partially hidden and until I moved slightly at the start I didn’t realise what he was doing. First couple of tracks he was playing and jumping up and down at the same time. And I mean just standing there and jumping up and down as high as he could. As soon as he got the chance he was down the front with the hand-held keyboard, racing up and down the stage like the guitarists. And every chance he got thereafter he was down again. Bearing in mind the band has about 10 members (well, six) it was pretty crowded at this small venue at times.
I lost count of the number of guitar picks they threw out to the audience. At one point they were just pulling them off their guitar necks and throwing them out in handfuls. Again, showboating.
But it was entertaining. Good to see this sort of stuff, even if only once.