Odessa play a certain brand of hardcore music
that just doesn’t feel natural. It appears
as though they are being heavy just for the sake
of it and there’s no real feeling. Saying
this they are not a bad band they are still talented
musicians and the music has very melodic tones
built in amongst the heavy breakdowns but I do
feel the singer needs to work a bit on his vocal
range as it would make their sound much more interesting.
Speaking of the vocals, I don’t think they
should be a purely screaming band; If they added
some clean vocals over the clean melodic tones
that are found in parts of their songs them it
would give them a bit more of an interesting sound.
The fact also remains that during their performance
their singer paced up and down the stage that
many times it was like watching a tennis ball
during a tennis match, he tried his best to energise
the crowd but alas they were having none of it.
My Children My Bride are a tough band for me to
review. Parts of their songs I hated, they sounded
like there were too many different elements from
many genres in them and it was too much; yet other
songs were absolutely perfect and had a good feel
to them spurring violent reactions from the crowd.
I must say the vocal comment from the previous
band fits here too I think a bigger range from
the vocalist would make it slightly more lovable
and playful. However they do seem to know how
to handle themselves onstage amazingly, the singer
specifically is just a driving force gets down
with the crowd allowing them to sing with him
down the microphone and jumping around viciously.
Very interesting band to watch and very passionate
to be back in the UK after 4 years they stated,
you definitely felt the love.
The Chariot may as well have called this show
world war 3. What the absolute hell did I just
watch?! It was too crazy for me to comprehend.
It’s like a record company walked into a
mental institution and picked the 5 craziest people,
gave them some instruments and took them on tour;
it’s just a shame that the music sounds
like it was made via the same method. From the
moment the lead singer stated “This microphone
is your microphone, these instruments are your
instruments, this stage is your stage, this is
our house let’s do this” the entire
of the Academy 3 loses their freaking minds. The
bassist dives into the crowd smashing his feet
off the light rig, then throws his bass into the
crowd and then when he got it back started swinging
it all over the place. The guitarist I’m
surprised didn’t break his neck with the
force he was head banging. The monitors were kicked
all over the place and the singer was always on
the barrier singing with the crowd passing the
microphone around. Then the guitarist gets IN
the crowd with us head banging along with us and
the bassist got carried around the room. One thing
that did get annoying was the fact the singer
was some kind of hippie kept going on about “Being
fee” and “Staying safe” which
got quite annoying after a while. Also the weird
recordings of strange distorted pop tracks they
play during some of their songs are quite funny.
The band keep changing instruments, at one point
the singers playing bass whilst the bassist sings,
the singer gains a drum from somewhere and starts
smacking that with some drum sticks. This show
has definitely been the craziest thing I have
ever witnessed in my years of going to music concerts;
the good rating is purely for the atmosphere and
what the show was like. If I was to review the
music it would be a very low rating.
Odessa 2/5
My Children My Bride 4/5
The Chariot 3/5
Review By James Webb
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