Sat 5th April 2008 at the Pilands Wood Community Centre
Before the nights entertainment, I didn’t really know what to expect from the night. Due on the bill was, firstly a singer called Candice, the next on the bill was an act called MC Dare and then finally Go Loud.
Pilands Wood Community centre main hall is quite a nice size, it was set out with some canteen style tables and chairs, not the typical setting for a gig. This was probably done on purpose to make the families more comfortable, and I think this worked well.
The first artist, Candice, is young local girl with a very good range of vocals and she displayed them well with a song list that covered her version of ‘Valarie’, straight into a rendition of ‘Joelyn’, both of these songs are rather different types of songs, yet she managed to put her own twist on them without making them sound too different.
The second artist was a drum and bass DJ backed with a very speedy MC, who goes by the name of MC dare. It was a very strange order for these 2 lads to be on in between a singer and a band and you would normally get this either at the end of the night or maybe as a crowd warmer at the beginning. Both the DJ and MC Dare seemed as though they were very comfortable and contempt doing what they were doing and it looked like they had done it many times before. In a different setting, I think they would of gone down much better, especially somewhere like a club.
Towards the end of the DJ set MC Dare introduced an unplanned addition to the bill, a guy who wanted to show off his talents as a human beat box and show off his talents he did! Some things were things that people had seen before but it was full of quality and most was very clever unique sounds that most hadn’t heard before. This was a nice surprise to the evening.
The last band was Go Loud who were the headliners. A four piece consisting of a drummer, bass, lead guitarist and a singer with rhythm guitar. Go Loud have a mix of their own songs and some covers in their set list. Their influences aren’t immediately clear because they play a wide range of songs dating from the 50’s to the present day, probably reflecting on the diverse age range in the band, yet by the middle of the set that you start to realise that they all seem to have a love for a mix of new wave music with a mix of arty prog rock. This is proved by a mid set highlight of ‘Love is a drug’ by Roxy Music, which pretty much falls into both categories. Their own songs are very similar to this in the fact that they have a bit of paunchiness and edge that new wave bands have and also a coolness and musical quality that the best prog rock bands have.
This does not mean that they only cover this spectrum, they don’t. They play a very 50’s Rock and Roll song that gets everyone up dancing. Towards the end of the night they play a touching version of Paul Weller’s classic, ‘You do something to me’, which is a song that many bands and artists try to cover well but actually don’t achieve to the best of their ability, but Go Loud do manage this and this pleases me no end because this is one of my personal favs.
The band are unusual in many ways, their age range and their influences are not the fashionable thing to do. Yet with this and the confusion of which musical direction they will play next, they turn out to be a very talented and good band live. The next thing is, whether their e.p that they are working on will sound as good on record than live and whether this will give them more songs of their own to play live
Before the nights entertainment, I didn’t really know what to expect from the night. Due on the bill was, firstly a singer called Candice, the next on the bill was an act called MC Dare and then finally Go Loud.
Pilands Wood Community centre main hall is quite a nice size, it was set out with some canteen style tables and chairs, not the typical setting for a gig. This was probably done on purpose to make the families more comfortable, and I think this worked well.
The first artist, Candice, is young local girl with a very good range of vocals and she displayed them well with a song list that covered her version of ‘Valarie’, straight into a rendition of ‘Joelyn’, both of these songs are rather different types of songs, yet she managed to put her own twist on them without making them sound too different.
The second artist was a drum and bass DJ backed with a very speedy MC, who goes by the name of MC dare. It was a very strange order for these 2 lads to be on in between a singer and a band and you would normally get this either at the end of the night or maybe as a crowd warmer at the beginning. Both the DJ and MC Dare seemed as though they were very comfortable and contempt doing what they were doing and it looked like they had done it many times before. In a different setting, I think they would of gone down much better, especially somewhere like a club.
Towards the end of the DJ set MC Dare introduced an unplanned addition to the bill, a guy who wanted to show off his talents as a human beat box and show off his talents he did! Some things were things that people had seen before but it was full of quality and most was very clever unique sounds that most hadn’t heard before. This was a nice surprise to the evening.
The last band was Go Loud who were the headliners. A four piece consisting of a drummer, bass, lead guitarist and a singer with rhythm guitar. Go Loud have a mix of their own songs and some covers in their set list. Their influences aren’t immediately clear because they play a wide range of songs dating from the 50’s to the present day, probably reflecting on the diverse age range in the band, yet by the middle of the set that you start to realise that they all seem to have a love for a mix of new wave music with a mix of arty prog rock. This is proved by a mid set highlight of ‘Love is a drug’ by Roxy Music, which pretty much falls into both categories. Their own songs are very similar to this in the fact that they have a bit of paunchiness and edge that new wave bands have and also a coolness and musical quality that the best prog rock bands have.
This does not mean that they only cover this spectrum, they don’t. They play a very 50’s Rock and Roll song that gets everyone up dancing. Towards the end of the night they play a touching version of Paul Weller’s classic, ‘You do something to me’, which is a song that many bands and artists try to cover well but actually don’t achieve to the best of their ability, but Go Loud do manage this and this pleases me no end because this is one of my personal favs.
The band are unusual in many ways, their age range and their influences are not the fashionable thing to do. Yet with this and the confusion of which musical direction they will play next, they turn out to be a very talented and good band live. The next thing is, whether their e.p that they are working on will sound as good on record than live and whether this will give them more songs of their own to play live
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