Band: Tubelord
Day: Sunday 16th
Time: 5.30-6.15
Place: Barfly
Bill: Danananaykroyd, Picture Books in Winter, Friends Electric, Butterflies With Beards
Myspace Genre: Alternative/Progressive/Salsa
Local? Kingston
Am I being biased as they’ve played Joy? Yeah. But they played because they’re fucking brilliant.
This will be the 4th time I’ve seen Tubelord this year (2000 trees, Clwb, Joy fact fans) and I love them. They’re also on an amazing bill on the best day of Swn. I’ve already recommended Dananananakroyd and I’d highly recommend Picture Books In Winter too (think a toned down and more melodic Threatmantics – indie folk with an edge). And they’re on an amazing label – Big Scary Monsters along with Pull Apart By Horses. Basically you need to go to this gig.
Tubelord make jerky, post punk mixed with a little bit of post hardcore. They sound like no other band I’ve seen, alternating between quick, awkward guitar one minute and huge falsetto choruses the next. If Muse weren’t such a bunch of pretentious twats and just wanted to have fun, they may have ended up sounding more like Tubelord. They’d’ve been fucking better for it too. The bands’ own myspace says,
‘We just want to fall over and wreck ourselves (a simulated generation of difference). It kind of feels real when we do those sort of things and makes us smile when we royally bugger it up. Just learn to smile with us and you’ll feel the fun tingle up inside of you. Raaaaaagh fuck just give us some more gigs please. We get bored easily and have very short attention spans. Feel free to join the ride and become pedantic bastards with the rest of us.’
They’re the hyperactive kids running around the playground with their hoods over their heads, pretending it’s a cape, and who doesn’t secretly wish they were still one of those kids? Just me? Shit.*
*If that sounds familiar then it’s because I used it to preview the Joy gig but they’re my words and I can use them again if I want to.
