Now, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting colder and that means it's the perfect time of year for going to gigs. We've got a few coming up over the next few months, the first of which was Yeasayer at the Millennium Music Hall last night.
It was Sarah, Tom, Josh and I - Cliffey I think would have liked to come but he was working so yeah - who made the long walk from Tewkesbury Place to the centre of town. For Tom and Josh it was the second time in three days, for they had been to see Professor Green (probably not a real professor) at the MMH on Sunday. They said it was awesome, and they seemed unsure as to whether an evening with Yeasayer could match it. I reckoned that it could.
We arrived just before the support act came on. They were called Suckers and while we were waiting for them we speculated as to what they might sound like. I thought they would resemble a cheap Klaxons; Josh disagreed, suggesting that they might be more like a shit Crystal Castles.
We were both wrong. Suckers were very, very good, utilising whistling and effects pedals and very high singing and maracas as drumsticks. In fact, I bought their album, and Josh bought a t-shirt with their name and a picture of a baboon on it. So that's a recommendation; everybody check out Suckers. I haven't listened to the album yet but I'm sure it rocks. Plus, one of them looks a bit like Jack Black (Sarah is the expert on Jack Black and she confirmed my suspicions). PLUS, one of the others looks like Howard Moon, especially when he plays the trumpet. Josh says they sound like Local Natives but I've not heard anything by them so I can't really comment.
I was actually a little concerned that Yeasayer wouldn't be able to follow their own support band. But I needn't have worried. They were excellent as well. I read an online review of their second album, and the author described the songs as having "an assful of funk". That will do for starters, and songs like Mondegreen ("everybody's talkin' bout me and my baby/makin' love 'til the morning light") were very danceable and awesome and the lightshow was really fantastic. But there was more; cosmic groovejams and creepycool treated vocals ( though Tom didn't much like that one) abounded, and it was a very good set indeed. Sarah and I, and sometimes Josh, will be going to several gigs this Autumn - British Sea Power, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire - but this is quite the yardstick.
So everybody check out Yeasayer too if you haven't already. They're good. So good that they gave us the spirit to walk all the way back. There were some hurty legs last night, I can tell you. Sitting down when we got back was the best sit down I've ever had. And then there was the chocolate cake, which Sarah had bought from the Co-Op earlier on for about three pounds. It was a good evening.
By the way, the man points contest is now on and poppin'. Josh, after much searching, earned one last night because not only did he have to walk from town to our house, he then had to walk all the way back to his house. So he's now drawing with Tom, who we decided got one for going into work when he was clearly very ill. Everybody else has zero.
Joel.
P.S. Josh and Tom decided between them that Professor Green was better than Yeasayer, but I'll bet the Prof. told them to say that or he'd pop caps in their asses. He is a rapper, after all.
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