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June 02, 2009
Boom Crash Opera, Sean Kelly,Taxiride @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne (29/05/09) Gig Reviews by melan1, 1st June, 2009
Upon my arrival, a lone Sean Kelly is supporting himself on electric guitar and getting through a substantially stripped back I Hear Motion – a classic for Models. The familiar voice is more bluesy than yesteryear (perhaps it’s just the speed in which he’s performing this time) but still strangely youthful. The room isn’t yet at capacity and a great number of people are furnishing the bar. Sean garners more than a few shouts and woooo’s between this and his final number, Taxiride are similarly unencumbered, although they have a drum track going somewhere. Despite the slight cringe they induce with their irritatingly nice tunes there’s little denying Get Set earworm qualities. And as the Taxiride nucleus – Jason Singh on lead vocals and Tim Wild and Dan Hall on acoustic, six- and twelve-string guitars respectively – come to life with gorgeous Simon and Garfunkel harmonies it’s clear that they can write a catchy tune at the very least. They are nice dudes, their songs are total quality and the way they sing together is joyful. After a couple of tracks, Singh announces the next song as one ‘you’ve never heard before in your life’ and off they go into Get Set. The man has a crystal falsetto, and the ability to hang shit on your own overexposure is one I heartily admire. One of the first songs they ever wrote (ten years ago) gets an airing – cutesy, folky and understandably unformed in comparison to their recent monsters. The first and only cover they’ve ever recorded Crosby, Stills and Nash’s Helplessly Hoping is next and their faithful rendition, is a lesson to any Taxiride doubters. They blast How I Got This Way like a folk boy band and were the perfect support choice for Boom Crash Opera, getting excited and breaking into the opening refrains of Onion Skin, amping the crowd even more. Everywhere You Go and Creeping Up Slowly (Dan actually utilises the drums) leaves the happy audience singing, dancing and ready for the headliners. Boom Crash Opera file on – with still hot Dale Ryder making his appearance last, in black leather jacket and beanie – and get straight into Dancing In The Storm. From the opening riff, people are excited and everyone sings along from the first word. Those who had previously been chatting like grown ups suddenly have their arms around each other’s necks screaming, ‘Here we GO! Here we go for one more turn!’ The band drops out for an entire chorus and I’m sure this nearly middle aged crowd surprised themselves – as much as they did Dale – by knowing all the words. A couple of missed cues, or forgotten lyrics are swept aside by the frontman by the time Get Out Of The House swings around; the whole band on point, Dale’s voice is cobweb free and soaring as it had been twenty five years earlier. After In The Morning, his leather jacket and beanie come off and as with the audience, an absence of his eighties/nineties superlocks is evident. Bettadaze is hugely funky and still fresh, with an aside to the (standing) drummer who is forced to relive a rehearsal joke by croaking through a chorus of Phil Collin’s In The Air Tonight. In The Morning captures the true Aussie sound of those more honest musical days and is a favorite of many in the older audience. Seeing me scribling one punter let’s me know that – ‘All the babysitters in Melbourne are MAXED OUT!’ The Best Thing was deliciously eastern influenced and then the moment everyone’s waiting for arrives. Although the drums clearly weren’t going to be what I had wanted in this intro, when the beatsman leads us in a chant of ‘Kick it in, cut it out, kick it out’, it’s close enough. What a fucking great song Onion Skin is, and what a great song to finish up on. Or would have been if they hadn’t have done it before encore. They return to rapturous applause with Dale responding to an audience request: ‘Hot Chilli Woman? No, we don’t do that song.’ So rather then play a Noiseworks tune they crank Hands Up In The Air, with a little of Springsteen’s I’m On Fire thrown in. And as the the jubilant audience files out they wish they had paid the babysitters for a little more time.
Corner Hotel May 29 2009....
Brendan Welch has released two critically acclaimed EPs on FUR, “The Unbeat” and “That Ghost”. His signature tune “Burn” received high rotation on Triple J for 6 months. Brendan is about to start recording his debut album with Paul Dempsey from Something for Kate on board as producer.
June 02, 2009
Boom Crash Opera, Sean Kelly,Taxiride @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne (29/05/09) Gig Reviews by melan1, 1st June, 2009
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