The blueness of the stage was so atmospheric. You could see the different light beams as they came down like an explosion of colour. At points as well there was bright pink bouncing off everyone at the same time that the performers were bouncing around in a blue haze that enveloped them and it was so ambient.
It is music like I have never heard before extremely unusual but extremely charming. Their syncopated beats, focus on percussion and energy was mesmerising and I will remember it for a very long time. All I can think off is a modern Devo mixed with punk and ska? It was jumpy, percussive, unnerving, almost of out tune syncopated playing. You could not stand still even though you didn’t know how to dance to the irregular beats and bars which made everyone look like idiots bouncing around. There was a lot of energy from the band and the audience.
The percussionist was jumping around frantically hitting everything. He had his arm in a plaster cast and was having to work twice as hard, hitting things at break-neck speed with just one hand. At one point it got all too much and the trumpeter came to help but he was really giving it his all!
I remember specifically being behind a guy who could not keep his limbs still, it was like he thought he was playing all of the instruments with no sense of spatial awareness. We later saw him backstage with the mixing desk for another band later on.
The singer wasn’t a front man, he was quite shy and reserved. The trumpeter wasn't a very confident performer and always looking into the crowd and did a lot of swaying. It was a very high energy performance where each performer managed to show their personalities. I have never seen a more enthusiastic brass section before, who were interacting together so much.
DUDS
Green Man Festival, Wales
19.08.18
It is music like I have never heard before extremely unusual but extremely charming. Their syncopated beats, focus on percussion and energy was mesmerising and I will remember it for a very long time. All I can think off is a modern Devo mixed with punk and ska? It was jumpy, percussive, unnerving, almost of out tune syncopated playing. You could not stand still even though you didn’t know how to dance to the irregular beats and bars which made everyone look like idiots bouncing around. There was a lot of energy from the band and the audience.
The percussionist was jumping around frantically hitting everything. He had his arm in a plaster cast and was having to work twice as hard, hitting things at break-neck speed with just one hand. At one point it got all too much and the trumpeter came to help but he was really giving it his all!
I remember specifically being behind a guy who could not keep his limbs still, it was like he thought he was playing all of the instruments with no sense of spatial awareness. We later saw him backstage with the mixing desk for another band later on.
The singer wasn’t a front man, he was quite shy and reserved. The trumpeter wasn't a very confident performer and always looking into the crowd and did a lot of swaying. It was a very high energy performance where each performer managed to show their personalities. I have never seen a more enthusiastic brass section before, who were interacting together so much.
Green Man Festival, Wales
19.08.18
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