 Dead Letter Circus are on first at a very strange
time for a performance, midnight. They come onstage
tonight at INK Nightclub to a very minimal crowd
which I did not expect. It’s a very disappointing
sight for me because of all the advertising and
sponsorship of this club and after all that making
this really promising; nobody turns up. Anyway
they play they’re set regardless of the
fact that the room is only about a quarter full
and really give it their all and I’m really
impressed! An alternative/progressive band from
Australia; sounding like a cross between The Mars
Volta and Muse with a little bit of Tool thrown
in there too, their music is uplifting and seductive
to a person’s interest and their stage show
is exactly the same. They have loads of really
psychedelic lighting and lasers adding to their
really trippy ambiance, I think this helps draw
this many people in because Dangerous didn’t
get the same response. It’s a crying shame
that this wasn’t a better opportunity for
the band like I thought it was going to be but
it seems nobody is interested in this club, hopefully
next time they’ll be part of a package tour
and will get a better crowd.
 Dangerous! have an even worse time in the smaller
Academy 3; not everybody that was upstairs came
downstairs to watch this band, not even close.
I did a head count and only around 8 people were
in this room for the duration of the set. It doesn’t
stop the band trying to put on a show and have
a good time; they try to get all 8 people dancing
and jumping around but I feel when there’s
so few people in a room everyone is a bit self
conscious, nobody joins in at all. The band play
a brand of explosive punk rock should encourage
ridiculous antics and reactions from the audience
but since it isn’t the band start diving
over the barriers to try and get themselves involved
hoping it’ll rub off. It’s a damn
shame because if there were more people this would
have been such a brilliant set and people would
have talked about it for months to come, no matter
what that band did tonight the empty room was
always going to ruin it. What a damn shame.
Dead Letter Circus – 4/5
Dangerous! – 3/5
Review By James Webb
Photos By Robert Lawrence |
