The Thin Kids + Velociraptor @ The Troubadour 24-02-10

The Thin Kids

Tonight is the full debut of Everett True’s latest musical collaboration, The Thin Kids, after a guest spot during The Legend!‘s support set at the recent Cribs show at The Zoo.  I caught the very end of it but with not enough time to photograph it.

How you take tonight very much influences your verdict on proceedings and Andrew McMillen’s review on Mess+Noise sums up the night well.  I take it as an evening of entertainment based on some sort of musical artistic statement (which sounds awful reading it back); more of an event than a gig in the traditional sense.

And so I see something slightly different from your usual show and am entertained, even though musically it’s too scratchy – the sound is very thin (no pun intended) and doesn’t really provide a firm enough base for True’s vocals – and the overall performance too sketchy for me.  But having said all that, days, weeks, months later I still find myself humming You’re Not On The Guest List to myself at inappropriate moments and can still remember a large number of the band’s 23 Things I’d Change About The Brisbane Music Scene. And that probably is the point of tonight.  But maybe I just prefer The Legend! and The Deadnotes.

Velociraptor support and again prove that they’re one of Brisbane’s bands to watch in 2010.  The onstage numbers swell to 10 for this performance, with a guitarist or two less and a tambourinist or two more than the 9-piece I saw last time.  There’s a rawness and simplicity, a real early 1960s rock ‘n’ roll sound that I just really like about the band.  And they’ve got the songs to go with it.  Plus, looking through the photos from the night there’s a lot I really like; they’re a pretty interesting bunch to photograph.

More photos on Flickr.

The Thin Kids
The Thin Kids

The Thin Kids

The Thin Kids

Velociraptor
Velociraptor

Velociraptor

Velociraptor

Velociraptor

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