{"id":3703,"date":"2009-10-29T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:36:19","slug":"meze-festival-publicist-snorkel-sincabeza-meze-longue-newport-14-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/meze-festival-publicist-snorkel-sincabeza-meze-longue-newport-14-10-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Meze Festival : Publicist \/ Snorkel \/ Sincabeza : Meze Longue, Newport : 14.10.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3708\" title=\"The equipment\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollectivewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/kit.jpg\" alt=\"The equipment\" width=\"293\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/kit.jpg 453w, https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/kit-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>It&#8217;s dark, and there&#8217;s a topless man drumming in the middle of the crowd, a strobe light between his feet. How did the night end like this? Mezefest09 has shown talismanic faith in the new and triumphant: all you need to do is spend very few pounds and open your brain up. Into this leap of faith oasis bang <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sincabeza\" target=\"_blank\">Sincabeza<\/a><\/strong>, four French dudes who can sound a little arid on record, but tonight go balls out lysergically mental. They splurge horizontally through the audience, and likewise their music: instrumental squiggles and massive blocks of colour that somehow dance around Slint, LCD Soundsystem and Truckers Of Husk, then stop on a dime. The perfect compliment to the mass of green dots splashing from the Meze light system and one of the best things I&#8217;ve seen this year.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bandsnorkel\" target=\"_blank\">Snorkel<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s set of killer instrumentals, they drop in a slow, moody piece. This may be a mistake on a Saturday night in Newport. &#8220;You&#8217;re shit&#8230;&#8221; mingles with the dub. Prior to and after this they mine a great seam of spy flick-addled music that darts nimbly over heavy bass weight and roughly added live trombone. If you&#8217;re in a hurry: like Bass Clef covering Pram. If not: these four Londoners layer darkly propulsive, cinematic noise with stoic intent and glum faces, and have a keyboard player that looks and jigs like Chris Martin. Get it in yer.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us back to crowding round a sweating, drumming male torso. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thenameispublicist\" target=\"_blank\">Publicist<\/a> <\/strong>is the nom du rhythm of Sebastian Thomson, sticksman for Trans Am and Weird War. Naming his previous employers doesn&#8217;t do much for clarity though: Thomson&#8217;s MO is frazzled, monomaniacal disco, where barely there vocodered vocals ride over endless variations on &#8220;groovy&#8221;. That&#8217;s uptempo, solid backbone groovy by the way, and pretty decent as it goes. Semi-nudity, live tromboning and superlative Frenchmen are par for the course this month though. You can have it all if you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s dark, and there&#8217;s a topless man drumming in the middle of the crowd, a strobe light between his feet. How did the night end like this? Mezefest09 has shown talismanic faith in the new and triumphant: all you need to do is spend very few pounds and open your brain up. Into this leap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[962,859,463,932,931,963],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-cincabeza","tag-meze-festival","tag-newport","tag-publicist","tag-snorkel","tag-tromboning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}