AUDIO REVIEW
Over the green grey mountains and blue blue etc another essential recording from Hanley/Dynamik enterprises. Good audience sound all instruments and vox well represented.
Another tight set from the well received Spring 2007 tour.
Memorable "Fall Sound" with simply sumptuous feedback control from Tim and MES replete with "hu-yeps" and anger management shouting , trilling and effing and jeffing. Indeed the band feels pretty tense tonight, bit of an uncoiled spring job with everything pushed to the limit. Maybe down to Orpheo pushing things along with some fairly martial four to the floor drumming especially on "Freaks" which does not have its usual swagger.
"My Door" is dominated by the analogue noises of Ms Poulou and an extremely laconic Mark.
The highpoint of the gig is the exceptional quartet of "Systematic Abuse", "Blindness", an encore break with the album version of "Reformation" atonal keyboard tinkling and weirdness, a baying audience lasting nine minutes , and finally "Reformation" in its live incarnation (which is immense by the way) - sparse vocals from Elena, and an appearance from his nibs about 3 minutes in telling us "this is what it sounds like".
Damn good gig this one.
DVD REVIEW
A view from the balcony at stage left. Good instrumental sound if a little tinny - Mark is a little quiet at the start. Camera work is a little shaky but generally a good recording.
Notable that Eleni plays the whole of the encore in her overcoat. At the end Smith does some live mixing of Spurr and Poulou, both of who exit shortly after MES eventually leaving the three americans to drive home a brutal coda. Orpheo does that rock star thing of touching the hands of the crowd at the end.....naughty!!