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deleteaa.blogspot.com Electric Soft Parade: They play a surprising number of older songs but none of the best or better known ones, so it's actually the Human Body material which gets more of a chance to shine. "A Beating Heart" especially is great. Brakes: They begin by blasting through Give Blood's best three songs ("Ring A Ding Ding", "Hi How Are You" and "Heard About Your Band") with barely a pause for breath, making for possibly the best opening four minutes of a festival set ever. After that things could easily get disappointing but they don't. Their cartoon country-punk could easily make for an overly knowing, one-joke show but they never play it anything less than straight, Eamon Hamilton barking out every word with a dangerous stare and Tom and Alex White revelling in the chance to play rock gods. Not that aren't hilarious at times of course. See: deadly secret weapon "Porcupine Or Pineapple". The lyrics to that for you: "Porcupine or pineapple? Porcupine or pineapple? Porcupine or pineapple???...... YEEEEOOOOOWCH!" (see it for yourself from T In The Park) As well as that, new songs recently recorded in Nashville ("I got a tan and [bassist] Marc Beatty didn't!" taunts Hamilton) are fuller and less ragged than old but still almost as fun, "Cheney" is worth playing twice and the chorus of "All Nite Disco Party" threatens to tear the roof off. A great way to end a pretty good day. seebass.livejournal.com Electric Soft Parade photos, review & setlist from Electric Gardens (scroll down) "...starting the set off with Bruxellisation, and Biting The Soles Of My Feet... And then they played Misunderstanding and Lose Yr Frown from the American Adventure - and Henry + Blaine from the Mystery Jets watching from inside the tent... They then played songs from the Human Body EP - A Beating Heart and Cold World, complete with Alex doing Keyboard duties... After Cold World, they played a new song - If That's The Case and then ended the set on Everybody Wants, which sounded huge..." (there's also some Brakes pics) jonnycmusic.livejournal.com Electric Soft Parade: "These guys were really good. Go and check em out people" blog.myspace.com/mingingfish has pics of ESP & Brakes (towards the end of the page) thequizblogger.blogspot.com Electric Soft Parade were surprisingly effective. |