I attended Motorpsycho's show at the Silo in Leuven, Belgium last
night...ears a bit sore, and still trying to figure out what hit
me.
The band took the stage around 10.15PM and went into two
straightforward songs that suffered from a lousy mix,
which caused the vocals to drown in
senseless noise.
By the time they got to "Starmelt,
Lovelight", the band was travelling
at full throttle. Most of the
songs, including "Un chien d'espace" and "Heartattack Mac"
were played in ultra long versions, lasting up to 15 minutes per song.
Having just caught up on the band with the "Daemons & angels.."
3CD box and my expectations were pretty high.
Though I'm not familiar with the older songs they never bored,
even in the spaced-out instrumental jams the
band proved to be talented musicians who dare to be inventive.
Going on for more than 80
minutes before leaving the stage for the first time, it was
obvious the audience loved these guys!
The band returned to rock with "You lied",
which then led into the grooving "Sideway spiral", with the "spiral,
spiral, spiral, spiral, spiral, spiral,..."
thumping endlessly. As a closer they did a sublime
"Working for MCA" (the Lynyrd Skynyrd song
which is on the new 7", so it seems).
A 120 minute show which never
became boring or tedious. I'm impressed.
Too bad they did no KISS tune
though...
This is unfortunately just a brief personal impression of the show,
and I can't give you a complete setlist.
But seeing the band live really makes me want to check out their
earlier stuff. Everyone who truly
loves good music and has the chance to catch the band live
should by all means do so.
Chris Dexters
I wriggled myself down the front and found a spot
right of the stage where the sound was remarkably better.
(Hell, I'm even willing to tolerate that xylophone!).
chris.dexters@club.innet.be