Tonight was a Metal Postcard triple-header.
Ollo suffered Ableton Gremlins and were only able to give us two tracks as they were meant to be heard. They persevered abmirably throughout the hiccoughs, and then showed us what we'd missed with the intriguing Litterbrain. Next time...
Matthew Edwards & The Unfortunates were the entirely live filling in an electronic sandwich. I'm firmly of the belief that anything can be sandwichized; nevertheless, time would prove METU to be an odd choice of filling - like sticking boeuf bourguignon between two slices of Mighty White. I want to pick cliches out of my pockets like disintegrating tissues: they were assured, stylish, tight, funky... Single Mintour was perhaps the highlight, but No More Songs was a crescending (not a word?), rousing finish, and the whole set oozed panache (I'm pulling at lint now; they were very good).
ROC: I don't really know what on earth that was. The rapid and semi-breathy vocal delivery was interesting, but the sum of the parts was a mishmass wobbling on the edge of a disaster. Something like a sonic tornado whipping through a secondhand store. It was all a bit Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculous. Weird. They sound decent in that link, but that only adds to the weirdness.
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