Well the proper title should be Music, drink, guitars, shouting, girls, more drink, bands, videos, drink, Smokestacks, Vatican Jet, tunes, cigarettes, beer…. Drunken staggering, lying in the road shouting at a tree and going up to my old house and looking in the windows like a demented zombie (so glad no-one was up)… but this would too long a title so The Launch will have to do
This could go on for so long. The first band up was the Stacks, who were on tip-top form, and showcasing a hefty quantity of new songs. These were interspaced with some old favourites, Though Jimmy Rise seems to have gone a bit limp and been left out. Shame!!! New material includes a not so new ballad, and some very catchy rock indie numbers which may well help to push the stacks further up the Leeds Music Scene.
But new material in abundance means that even for those who’ve seen the stacks many times there was plenty to watch and immerse yourself in. Fantastic harmonies and a continually varying sound made these tracks (I have no names, stacks send me a set list!!!) nearly memorable to make through the drunken haze.
The Jets Vid. A mishmash of speeded up footage taken at variety of gigs around the Leeds area, speeded up travelling down roads and round corners and along motorways through the windscreen of the van had the feel of old Cure videos, Jumping someone else’s Train in particular.
The Stacks video to We Can Drink Our Way Through This was a narrative and comic masterpiece, and since it was all done in just two mornings worth of shoots it was stunningly impressive, and will appear on FCM very soon. The stacks clearly got into the feel very easily, and come off as comfortable and confident in this well edited and smoothly directed piece. The video of the night, definitely, not to run down the Jets but the Stacks amazed with their willingness to dress up, play the parts.
And so the Jets took to the stage, and opening with their punchy number Ramona and moving through their boozy repertoire they stole the headline set in true style. I’d had some doubts about the running order but with Dodge’s showmanship this was foolish of me really.
Indeed there is no front man in Leeds who can play it and leap around quite so stylishly as dodge, everyone secretly hates him just little bit for it, (there I said it) anyone else would look stupid, but damn it he just has the knack (bastard).
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