{"id":442,"date":"2009-03-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2009-06-11T01:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:05:05","slug":"review-wavvespens-buffalo-bar-cardiff-040309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/review-wavvespens-buffalo-bar-cardiff-040309\/","title":{"rendered":"Wavves\/Pens : Buffalo Bar, Cardiff : 04\/03\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joyrecords.co.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/l_65dd89edc4ead5505c3378f432cd23c7-781995.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joyrecords.co.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/l_65dd89edc4ead5505c3378f432cd23c7-781992.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s no way not to sound sexist or pervy saying this, but women in bands are easily fifty thousand times better than their penis-ed equivalents. Movement, presense: boner. <strong>Pens <\/strong>tick every other box in my brain too: clattering, shambolic amateurishness, instrument swapping, fun over technique. Two thirds of them used to be in (Look Look) Dancing Boys, who played a great, febrile PeppermintPatti show a year or two ago, all youth, shyness and booze. Adding an extra member hasn&#8217;t really changed the plan much: simple primitivist guitar, stand up drumming, two finger keyboard, off-mic singing, drunk harmonies. A riot in party form then, led by a cross between Mick Jagger and Joanna Lumley&#8217;s character in Absolutely Fabulous. Endless fun, except they finish after 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong>Wavves<\/strong> hit the wall of hipster apathy hard. The band&#8217;s stoned arrogance manifests itself in snide digs at the audience, snotnose jibes that actually fit the brash nature of this San Diego duo&#8217;s noisepop pretty well. Wavves rattle through a load of songs tonight, but not many that deviate from the template of quiet\/loud guitar storm, thumping drums, mumbles and falsetto in the mix. Lacking is the magic of a band like No Age, and Wavves stumble through a welter of awkward tunes that point to an age range a little under their actual early 20s. The odd moment is a gem though, such as the great set closer, all full tilt boogie riff and real emotion. Concentrate on these, grow up, tidy your room, then we&#8217;ll talk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way not to sound sexist or pervy saying this, but women in bands are easily fifty thousand times better than their penis-ed equivalents. Movement, presense: boner. Pens tick every other box in my brain too: clattering, shambolic amateurishness, instrument swapping, fun over technique. Two thirds of them used to be in (Look Look) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}