{"id":2266,"date":"2009-08-14T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2009-08-14T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T22:30:14","slug":"bethan-elfyn-friends-presents-circa-regna-tonat-and-more-buffalo-cardiff-130809-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/bethan-elfyn-friends-presents-circa-regna-tonat-and-more-buffalo-cardiff-130809-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethan Elfyn & Friends presents Circa Regna Tonat and more @ Buffalo, Cardiff : 13\/08\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whtfu\"The Lord moves in mysterious ways.\u00a0 This evening He is trying to convey a message to me using only a bicycle and someone I’ve not seen in a while.\u00a0 I think I get the gist of what He’s saying but it’d be a whole lot easier if he just emailed me.\u00a0 This brings us nicely to our first band…<\/p>\n

Quintamity<\/strong><\/a> sound a bit like when your favourite nineties grunge band discovered heroin and started releasing angst ridden acoustic EPs.\u00a0 They’re not terrible, they can play and the singer has a decent voice but they’re very miserable and not terribly fun to watch.\u00a0 My friend said they were like Crowded house after too much gin at a cousin’s wedding.\u00a0 Well, she said most of that, I used a bit of poetic license.\u00a0 In short, I’d rather just read about their torment and heartbreak rather than stand in a room and listen to it.<\/p>\n

Silence At Sea<\/strong><\/a> bound onto the stage and for some reason I don’t think I’m going to like them.\u00a0 I’m a bit twee-d out at the moment.\u00a0 As soon as they start I realise I’m wrong.\u00a0 I like them.\u00a0 This feels dirty, I have a wave of guilt as if I’ve stolen a ham from my grandmother’s larder.\u00a0 I shrug this off.\u00a0 Even though they begin the second song with a typewriter intro this isn’t tweecore.\u00a0 They actually mix Moldy Peaches playful alt.folk with a bit of the Decemberists darker, multi-instrumental edge.\u00a0 At the end of the day twee isn’t a dirty word, if you have good songs and a good singer then you’re a good band, even if the singer is playing a blowy, pipey, keyboard thing which may be the unsexiest instrument in modern music.<\/p>\n

Circa Regna Tonat<\/strong><\/a> rock.\u00a0 They always rock.\u00a0 I’ve seen them roughly a million times now and they never let me down.\u00a0 Sweeping, intense, loud, stripey, intricate, shouty, stubbley, Circa are all of these things and more.\u00a0 They combine post-rock melody and math-rock finger tapping with bursts of screaming which sound like hard work on the ears.\u00a0 It isn’t.\u00a0 They always have a tune.\u00a0 I can’t think of a band to compare them to right now but it certainly isn’t Rage Against The Machine which somebody downstairs said.\u00a0 He was quickly corrected by the singer of a well known Cardiff beat combo.\u00a0 You can choose your friends but not your Buffalo audience.\u00a0 A venue so tight they only pay half their neon bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lord moves in mysterious ways.\u00a0 This evening He is trying to convey a message to me using only a bicycle and someone I’ve not seen in a while.\u00a0 I think I get the gist of what He’s saying but it’d be a whole lot easier if he just emailed me.\u00a0 This brings us nicely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[705,530,469,776,531,774,777,775],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-bethan-elfyn","tag-buffalo","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-museum","tag-circa-regna-tonat","tag-quintamity","tag-respond","tag-silence-at-sea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}