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Airborne Toxic Event [Live] @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Tuesday 3rd February 2009 February 15, 2009, 03:41 PM Views: 964
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 Tonight is a night of the unknown. I have no idea who the support band is, and I don’t know too much about Airborne Toxic Event, other than Pitchfork gave them 1.6 for their album review, and they responded by writing a nice polite letter in reply to the writer. It seems the band have a lot of support too, evident not least in tonight’s sold out gig. Speaking of support, the support band, who reveal themselves to be called Capital, are bloody awful. They peddle cringe-worthy, derivative nonsense, and seeing as they look the wrong side of 30...maybe pushing 40 two of them, they really are old enough to know better. As it all reminds me of a poor cartoon version of the real thing (a bit like Muppet Babies), here are my thought on them in pictures.      Not very good were they?
Anyway, Airborne Toxic Event arrive onstage to a decent applause, perhaps they play them on the radio, which I pretty much never listen to. There certainly seems to be a lot of ‘fans’ amongst the casual observers – they’ll be nobody in from Pitchfork then. The opening song sounds pretty good, already a million times better than anything Capital bored us with. The next one’s not bad either, and they seem to be having a good time, which always helps. It’s extremely hard to see how the hell their album warranted a 1.6 on Pitchfork? It can’t be that bad based on the songs so far. I mean you get that kind of score when you can’t even play your instruments – a 1.6 is just for turning up. The next one sounds like The Strokes a little and they then move on to Arcade Fire, early U2 and then Secret Machines, and now it’s apparent what their famous detractor was talking about. This aping is what Pitchfork were getting at in their review, so some of what they said is apparently true, though I still don’t think their lack of originality warrants that score; at least these guys produce something decent with their secondhand sounds....not like Crapital.
The gig concludes with the band out of breath and genuinely delighted with their support this evening (the crowd, not ‘the band we will no longer mention’). We even got a crowd rendition of ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ after the lead singer admitted he wished he was from Manchester when he was younger due to the impact The Smiths had on him (now that’s bonding with the crowd). The irony is, there’s no misery in the crowd at all.
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| | | | Overall Rating | | 6 | | Vocals / Lyrics | | 7 | | Musicianship | | 7 | | Production | | 6 | | Creativity | | 5 | | Lastability | | 6 | | Reviewers Tilt | | 6 |
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