MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
	(Manchester Bands Section)
	Tribeca Manchester Roadhouse  1/5/00

Dub & Indie?  Funk & folk?  Psychedelic  tinted with baggy?  Who knows

The normal result  for such a collection of assorted style is a full on collision, a mess, but this lot somehow - no doubt through intent rather than luck- manage to avoid that route interweaving  the disparate styles, mainly around the strident, controlling rhythm of bongos & drums to produce shifting patterns that should be out of sync,  but strangely work together

Taking the stage as a 5 piece but using tapes & loops almost as though they are a 6th member they just about manage to fit onto the stage.  Any attempts  at energetic movements across the area would probably result in someone getting a fret board rammed in a painful place

Combined with a vocalist who has the range and strength to add the icing to the cakes

At times it appears as though she is miming to the tape, but it is in fact of getting around the lack of a second vocalist for back up, and works well.   No doubt we will be hearing more from this lot.

For a different review of this gig see       
 

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