Last night we went and saw Sneaky Sound System at the Enmore. It was pretty topsmax. They put on an excellent live show, really engaging the crowd and engendering a nice atmosphere. There were a few crowd issues, but you kinda expect that when it’s an all ages gig.. lots of ‘aren’t we hardcore’ teens and a fair bit of shoving about. Not enough to kill the fun though. They were supported by Dukes of Windsor, who seemed a little disappointed by the somewhat lackluster crowd.. there was little movement or response, as made obvious at the end of the set.. “Do I hear you guys yelling encore!?” [mostly silence] “All right, one more tune!” Still, they were ok.. showing potential, with some good tracks in the mix. Their guitarist is a little unfortunate though.. he’s one of those who reckons that a guitar solo just means ‘make a lot of noise with my guitar’ rather than anything worthwhile. Also, they all wear tight black jeans. This song is probably their highlight, so enjoy it.. if you dare. I rather like it…
So onto the main event.. SSS really play to the audience, with the front people pretty obviously enjoying themselves, playing off each other and so forth. It was great fun to watch them, they definately work better live than on a CD. At the end there was about 20 minutes of full on dance set happening, which was really excellent. They really should put a set like that out as a disc two to their releases.. it’d make me buy one. Excellent show though, if word gets out about how good their shows are they could go far.. they just need to up the ante a little on the CD releases. Songs.. try UFO and Hip Hip Hooray.
If you travel across the Soviet Union, you can cross seven time zones.
Seems my trivia book is a little old.. still, I was in four different ones across Aus. There’s a stupid +8.75 time zone on the eastern edge of WA…
