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Not Completely Superthriller
October 11, 2005

Went to see Superthriller at Shunt last night.

A very sweaty affair in a collection of old railway arches .

I shot these [it's three shots stuck together] at 400 ISO but they are still dark - there wasn't an awful amount of lighting as they had the projections [The greeny bit in the middle]. I tried bumping it up with Brightness/Contrast!

There are plenty of them in the band: A charisma-less lead vocalist that seemed to have come as "Tortured Beat Poet" from a random 60's movie. A complete arse on percussion, that looked as though he had failed an audition for the 118 ads. Two synth players: One controlling backing tracks and the visuals, who looked like a medical student on Rag Week. The other had a bit of a Ron Mael [Sparks] fixation without the comedy moustache. They are backed by "three girl singers" in 80's macs that looked like actors playing the part of backing vocalists to me... Mind you, one of them did a very impressive display from a rope suspended from the ceiling [see left of photo] during "Upgrade". Not visually stunning then. The stage was very cramped, unsurprisingly, and consequently a couple of mic's went flying causing some unpleasant additional audio!

Musically, they played pretty much all of the album [may have been all of it - I didn't miss anything] and a cover of Lennon's "Cold Turkey". Sound wasn't great, percussion too loud, vocals too quiet. They certainly didn't do the album justice live.

The Prince/Scissor Sister songwriting comparisons are justified but they just don't look comfortable singing about sex, tongue in cheek or anywhere else. I expected a whole lot more personality than that.

Interesting venue, Shunt, if a little damp - there was a stream of water running down one of the walls by the bar. And it smelt, like a damp railway arch mostly!

Sounds like I had a crap time but the sum of all the parts wasn't as bad as they sound individually. I might have been less impressed had I paid to get in I suppose. I'll stick with the album for now until they get a bigger budget for live shows I think.

I must add some links to these last two posts - Where's the time!?!?!

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