Wedding Present/Crystal Skulls @ double door
After a mind-blowing and jaw dropping night of electronics and volume from the M83 show I look toward this show to fulfill the pop-hooks of the weekend. I was not disappointed, Gedge and co. were on pickingup where he left off last time he was in town as Cinerama. Crystal Skulls opened and having not any knowledge of them before hand, they put on a enjoyable albeit vanilla set. Also met up with a that same list member from the Hitchcock show, which was fun.
With a name like Crystal Skulls I was expecting a band dressed all in black, singing (screaming) songs about death and blood. Not the case, these guys were pretty much a straight-up indie rock band with influences in the mid-80âs. I heard a bit of the House Martins , Smiths, and other jangly brit-pop bands. Not any really memorable songs, but a good feeling throughout the set. Although their name is very similar to my favorite doors cover band called crystal shitâ¦they do a door show and it goes a little something like this..
Enough silliness, The Wedding Present were fantastic. Gedge hadnât lost a step, bashing away at his guitar while belting out the sweetest songs about being hurt by women. The drummer was a really young guy (compared to Gedge and Simon anyway) and he was terrific, beating the living crap out of the drums. Not that the songs are overly aggressive, on the contrary the songs more passive, longing and coy-shy-boy-esque. They are the only band I have seen to employ a woman as a guitar tech. The show was obviously to support the new album âTake Fountainâ so most of the set came from that and the last Cinerama album, with the gaps filled in by older Wedding Present songs. Only having Saturnalia I didnât know all the other songs, but I will definetly have to get the rest of their stuff.
