Thatch Noir
Mar. 12th, 2005 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darren_strangerWent to Dream to catch Thatch Noir last night.
We were running late and didn't get there 'til well after midnight, and i was worried we might have missed the band (ha - you'd think i'd know better by now). As it was we caught the last three songs of the support band (Dabomb?) who reminded me a little of Sobriquet on the song with female vocals and a milder version of the Chaos Engine on those with male vocals. What we heard sounded quite good.
Thatch Noir surprised me with how heavy their live set was. The big wall of psychedelic guitar sound was quite different to the mellower, almost unplugged versions i'd heard from the internet. Some songs were tighter than others (it seemed like the live lineup hadn't played together much, which turned out to be the case) but when it hit the spot it was magic. The standout songs i remember were Manifesto (very different live to the recorded version) and another that i forget the name of (mentioned Eldorado a lot and apparently was inspired by a Werner Herzog film) but they were all good. Andi's vocals reminded me of everyone from Rozz Williams to Bowie to Pete Murphy (or, as Elaine pointed out, Steve Kilby) and his stage presence made a good centrepoint to the performance.
I really enjoyed them and hopefully they'll play down out way again before too long.
We were running late and didn't get there 'til well after midnight, and i was worried we might have missed the band (ha - you'd think i'd know better by now). As it was we caught the last three songs of the support band (Dabomb?) who reminded me a little of Sobriquet on the song with female vocals and a milder version of the Chaos Engine on those with male vocals. What we heard sounded quite good.
Thatch Noir surprised me with how heavy their live set was. The big wall of psychedelic guitar sound was quite different to the mellower, almost unplugged versions i'd heard from the internet. Some songs were tighter than others (it seemed like the live lineup hadn't played together much, which turned out to be the case) but when it hit the spot it was magic. The standout songs i remember were Manifesto (very different live to the recorded version) and another that i forget the name of (mentioned Eldorado a lot and apparently was inspired by a Werner Herzog film) but they were all good. Andi's vocals reminded me of everyone from Rozz Williams to Bowie to Pete Murphy (or, as Elaine pointed out, Steve Kilby) and his stage presence made a good centrepoint to the performance.
I really enjoyed them and hopefully they'll play down out way again before too long.
