Well, i felt old yet again tonight, and well dressed
pretty much differently to every other person,
in the room, with parents littering the backs
of the room and lurking near the bar, this is
a gig for kids.
Cash Cash, kick off there set with a decent self
titled song, that is strongly driven by an electronic
sound with breakdowns in the right places before
getting heavy again into the groove, they remind
me of innerpartysystem only way younger, and without
the killer beats, rhythms, and lyrics, if they
played more songs like the opening few tracks,then
they would be well on there way to getting well
known, but then midway through the set, things
just nose dive, it was like listening to High
School Musical only more dance orientated, it
was dance music for kids,with lyrics, the better
songs were ,radio radio, and cash cash, if they
played more songs like that, then it would have
been better than the stuff they played.
Next up were Sing it Loud, they came on stage
looking like they fell out of the 80s, looking
like hair metallers from that ear and were jumping
around like it too but they looked more like wounded
ducks, rocking out properly should be left to
the pros.The music was poppy punk and very commercial,
but the crowd seemed to respond well to it, and
they even got involved with a bit of a singalong,
alot of it felt the same with a ballad thrown
in there, but nothing really grabbed me enough
to warrant my attention, or to make me go and
buy there CD.Sadly for the energy that they showed
didn't translate that well in decent music.
 Headliners were Cobra Starship, and boy o boy
did the singer get off to a flyer, he managed
to fall of the stage and luckily for him, i broke
his fall, also luckily for him, he didn't injure
me or my camera, or the set would have been cut
short in the first 30 seconds, the fucker didn't
even apologize.Well enough of that, the opening
track was 'The City Is at War' in which a mini
war may have started in the crowd, because it
was bouncing, another good track was The Church
Of Hot Addiction, the singer mentioned that there
was trouble last night, but failed to mention
what happened, but this led into Paparazzi, which
had the crowd going once again. what was slightly
worrying however was that the singers voice was
getting weak in between songs, like he was losing
his voice.The mix of the gig tonight wasn't even
across the board as i could only hear the drums,
synths and vocals, the guitars were almost non
present, The encore consisted of Pleasure Ryland
and Guilty Pleasure which rounded off the set
in great style.
Cobra Starship – 4/5
Sing It Loud – 2/5
Cash Cash– 3/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
