We played a pretty standard, raucous show at the Hobgoblin in Brighton tonight, and having nipped out the back to get something from the van, I overheard this rather hilarious analysis from some hoorah henry with short blonde dreadlocks in a bandana that looked like his name was Nathaniel and his favourite album was Blood Sugar Sex Magick or Toots and The Maytals let rip a couple of absolute gems to his lah di dah sycophant friends :
"that band, you know, they had a couple of really good intros, but when the guy started singing, it sounded like they had handed the microphone to a member of the crowd"
...and...
"the guitarist was trying to do all these harmonics while he was playing and it just sounded ridiculous - just play the songs!"
It is quite possible he was talking about someone else. Maybe The Muscle Club. But I reckon having just played it was probably about us.
In other news we have received some rather good reviews from real journalists ...
The Irish Times, apparently the biggest broadsheet in Ireland, gave our album 9/10 and a glowing review; Rock Sound magazine gave our album 8/10, featured us on their cover CD, and hosted a brief interview / feature (with the words "dan ormsby" and "creative genius" without the word "not" in the same sentence), and listed us as the top band on their office stereo section, and BBC Music shared this rather awesome piece.
Expecting some more reviews to come in this week.
My dad, the biggest supporter of the band, suddenly died on Friday, and it is the biggest comfort to know that the "experts", if you will, are digging this album.
RIP Dad, I'm doing the business!
Dan xx
"that band, you know, they had a couple of really good intros, but when the guy started singing, it sounded like they had handed the microphone to a member of the crowd"
...and...
"the guitarist was trying to do all these harmonics while he was playing and it just sounded ridiculous - just play the songs!"
It is quite possible he was talking about someone else. Maybe The Muscle Club. But I reckon having just played it was probably about us.
In other news we have received some rather good reviews from real journalists ...
The Irish Times, apparently the biggest broadsheet in Ireland, gave our album 9/10 and a glowing review; Rock Sound magazine gave our album 8/10, featured us on their cover CD, and hosted a brief interview / feature (with the words "dan ormsby" and "creative genius" without the word "not" in the same sentence), and listed us as the top band on their office stereo section, and BBC Music shared this rather awesome piece.
Expecting some more reviews to come in this week.
My dad, the biggest supporter of the band, suddenly died on Friday, and it is the biggest comfort to know that the "experts", if you will, are digging this album.
RIP Dad, I'm doing the business!
Dan xx
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