Electric Gardens 2006
Pic by SeeBass
deleteaa.blogspot.com They begin by blasting through Give Blood's best three songs (Ring A Ding Ding, Hi How Are You and Heard About Your Band) with barely a pause for breath, making for possibly the best opening four minutes of a festival set ever. After that things could easily get disappointing but they don't. Their cartoon country-punk could easily make for an overly knowing, one-joke show but they never play it anything less than straight, Eamon Hamilton barking out every word with a dangerous stare and Tom and Alex White revelling in the chance to play rock gods. Not that aren't hilarious at times of course. See: deadly secret weapon Porcupine Or Pineapple. The lyrics to that for you: Porcupine or pineapple? Porcupine or pineapple? Porcupine or pineapple???...... YEEEEOOOOOWCH! (see it for yourself from T In The Park)
As well as that, new songs recently recorded in Nashville ("I got a tan and Marc Beatty didn't!" taunts Hamilton) are fuller and less ragged than old but still almost as fun, Cheney is worth playing twice and the chorus of All Nite Disco Party threatens to tear the roof off. A great way to end a pretty good day.
seebass.livejournal.com Brakes were really good, played a few new songs - Take Me To The River and Margherita, before ending their set on Comma Comma. Also has some photos (scroll to end of page)