Met up with friends and gig-buddies beforehand and ate like kings. As usual, things didn’t get packed till it was time for Spinnerette to perform. Initial observations indicated that there were plenty of Brody wannabes, and people looking for a reason to get ‘loose’, by which I mean thrash themselves around and try to knock people out. I’m not kidding – I got hit in the head by one such idiot, and my mate Ollie rescued this girl from getting seriously trampled.
This made things a little less enjoyable and reminded me a lot of my experience at this very venue when I went to see the Horrors.
Just like the Horrors, however, Brody has her audience completely captivated. The girls want to be her, the boys want her babies, and they made it known vocally. There’s always one, isn’t there?
I missed the first support act, but caught Mini Mansions who did a pretty cool yet uncharacteristic cover of Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’ (but seriously, aren’t all the best covers uncharacteristic? To me they are). I did feel sorry for them because the masses were rabid with the promise of Brody by the time they got into being on stage.
I really love the edge to Brody’s sound, and we were pretty lucky she performed at all, given she was recovering from laryngitis. I’m glad that other gig-buddy Tara said she felt she was getting too old for that shit – is it a bit too uncool to desire a music space where you can just listen and not have to worry about whether or not you’ll accidentally get the stuffing bashed out of you?
Needless to say, I didn’t get to take any remotely decent photos. I left that to the taller kids.
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