Yesterday I definitely wasn’t on a road trip and I definitely tweeted this.
Not on the road. pic.twitter.com/9xKUWA5uGt
— Ian Parish (@iparish) May 10, 2018
In reality I was on a fast train into London town. I had just completed a live range at MGS and got changed quickly to see the LA band 3Teeth at Electrowerkz, that lovely quiet, beautiful little venue in The Angel.
The support band were called Creepiing. They were a bit shit really. They had one good song and another one that was borderline OK.
Unfortunately for them, Creepiing, just weren’t that good. The crowd gave them a good reception though.
The headline band were next and for just over an hour they played a solid set. The music is dark, slow and menacing. It’s a very good blend of heavy chugging riffs with keyboards and sampled sounds. The vocals, although distorted, are clear and understandable.
There are a couple of things I want to mention though. Most of the songs are heavy and slow so there weren’t really any upbeat songs to get your dancing shoes moving. I know slow is their style but overall the evening needed some bounce. It’s always seemed important to me that bands look like they are having fun and can enjoy the moment. 3Teeth managed that well. The little chats in between songs were personalised and friendly with plenty of smiling from the lead singer. The guitarist was a pretty happy chap too. The keyboardists didn’t really raise their faces much, but perhaps that’s because they are keyboardists.
The gig was rated 6 on a scale of something.
Before the encore the crowd were doing what seems to be an industry standard now of chatting “one more song”. I find this really irritating. Why stop at one more song? Why not ask for a whole album? “We want more” seems a more appropriate chant to make, thereby not limiting the band to just one more song.
My favourite encore chant was “We want Moore” when I saw Gary Moore back in the day.