Elektrofestivities
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duranorak has already done it, so I'll just point you to her review for the bulk of the details and add a few comments of my own here :)
Ju Ju Babies were indeed fun, butduranorak wasn't half as impressed by the highly attractive main vocalist as I was. Very silly outfit, lovely smile, having an incredible amount of fun, and extremely cute. Want one ;)
Kinetic may have been my favourite act of the night, and I bought one of their CDs - although sadly not the one with 'Go Elements Go' on it, which is the track that stuck with me most from their set. All good though, really good.
Discoordinated sucked.
Goteki I was expecting to be disappointed with, after their poor showing in Cambridge recently. In fact, they were excellent. The frontman was having a whale of a time, and the music was brilliant. I bounced lots. Oh, I saw him later and went to say thanks for the excellent show, and he was so mullered he could barely string together "Thanks" and a smile. Bless ;)
Marlow sucked, although in an entirely less offensive way than Discoordinated. Marlow were just bland.
The Droyds were also bland and formulaic. Plus, the guy looked like the psychopath out of Reservoir Dogs. I kept finding myself humming tunes from the film while they were on, he looked that similar. The girl would have been cute, in a very studied and posed sort of way, if she hadn't been smoking every time I looked at her. Ick. Oh, and she was singing so flat it even made my teeth grate.
XPQ-21 were really good, I'd be hard pushed to say whether I preferred them or Covenant. I was surprised to find that I knew at least three or four of their tracks, I've obviously been spending too much time hanging around with goths ;) Excellent sound and a very polished performance.
Covenant were really good too, of course. I think the reason I lean towards preferring XPQ-21 is the slightly unfair fact that I wouldn't expect anything less than a polished performance with excellent sound and good material from Covenant... and they delivered. Their sound is even dancier live, and I'd really like to hear them played at a club with a halfway decent sound system sometime, i.e. not The Calling.
That aside, I managed to bump into first of all a guy who I'd met briefly at Cyberdog last week, a contact juggler and all round show-off of the highest calibre (I like him, in case that doesn't read right). Then between us we managed to find a few more jugglers/devil-sticks/contact juggler/astrojax people. Yes, people with Astrojax (the ones with LEDs in them) were there, and eep! could they do some weird shit with them. I feel just silly trying to play with my Astrojax now. I've been telling people it's a cross between juggling and a yo-yo. These guys made them look like a cross beween poi and devil sticks. Very pretty. Very tricky.
Anyway, 'hi' todenari who is the only one of that crowd I was bright enough to remember the lj username of :) He has the same juggling balls as me, and a similar looking icon to my juggling one. Except he's much better at juggling, so I spent a good while watching him and trying to learn a bit...
duranorak has already done it, so I'll just point you to her review for the bulk of the details and add a few comments of my own here :)Ju Ju Babies were indeed fun, but
duranorak wasn't half as impressed by the highly attractive main vocalist as I was. Very silly outfit, lovely smile, having an incredible amount of fun, and extremely cute. Want one ;)Kinetic may have been my favourite act of the night, and I bought one of their CDs - although sadly not the one with 'Go Elements Go' on it, which is the track that stuck with me most from their set. All good though, really good.
Discoordinated sucked.
Goteki I was expecting to be disappointed with, after their poor showing in Cambridge recently. In fact, they were excellent. The frontman was having a whale of a time, and the music was brilliant. I bounced lots. Oh, I saw him later and went to say thanks for the excellent show, and he was so mullered he could barely string together "Thanks" and a smile. Bless ;)
Marlow sucked, although in an entirely less offensive way than Discoordinated. Marlow were just bland.
The Droyds were also bland and formulaic. Plus, the guy looked like the psychopath out of Reservoir Dogs. I kept finding myself humming tunes from the film while they were on, he looked that similar. The girl would have been cute, in a very studied and posed sort of way, if she hadn't been smoking every time I looked at her. Ick. Oh, and she was singing so flat it even made my teeth grate.
XPQ-21 were really good, I'd be hard pushed to say whether I preferred them or Covenant. I was surprised to find that I knew at least three or four of their tracks, I've obviously been spending too much time hanging around with goths ;) Excellent sound and a very polished performance.
Covenant were really good too, of course. I think the reason I lean towards preferring XPQ-21 is the slightly unfair fact that I wouldn't expect anything less than a polished performance with excellent sound and good material from Covenant... and they delivered. Their sound is even dancier live, and I'd really like to hear them played at a club with a halfway decent sound system sometime, i.e. not The Calling.
That aside, I managed to bump into first of all a guy who I'd met briefly at Cyberdog last week, a contact juggler and all round show-off of the highest calibre (I like him, in case that doesn't read right). Then between us we managed to find a few more jugglers/devil-sticks/contact juggler/astrojax people. Yes, people with Astrojax (the ones with LEDs in them) were there, and eep! could they do some weird shit with them. I feel just silly trying to play with my Astrojax now. I've been telling people it's a cross between juggling and a yo-yo. These guys made them look like a cross beween poi and devil sticks. Very pretty. Very tricky.
Anyway, 'hi' to
denari who is the only one of that crowd I was bright enough to remember the lj username of :) He has the same juggling balls as me, and a similar looking icon to my juggling one. Except he's much better at juggling, so I spent a good while watching him and trying to learn a bit...
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Should be fun. Trying to organise 1000 jugglers and all their balls, devilsticks, poi,stilts, giant rabbit suits, whatever....Heh.
Whitby sounds great though...