Friday 19 December - Part 2 - and the evening got off to a spankingly good start when six Friday-Nighters met up at Restaurant Bari for a pre-Christmas meal. The food was great and then five of us headed towards Fibbers where we were going to finish the evening off listening to a couple of new bands.
We came in shortly after Leeds-based band Pulled Apart By Horses had taken to the stage. Not that they were on for long. The lead singer, Tom Hudson, seemed to have difficulty staying behind the barriers and insisted on throwing himself into the crowd, beating eight type of... noise... out of his guitar as he flailed about on the floor. I understand that this is par for the course for this band whose members often end up in hospital by the end of the evening. Honest to goodness, I couldn't tell the difference between one song and the next. Grungy, distorted guitars and shouty vocals spat at no one in particular combined to create a driving punk/sub-pop noise didn't really float my boat at all. Ten out of ten for energy though.
The head-lining band was Leeds melodramatic indie popsters Grammatics. They started well with Owen Brinley's fragile voice weaving a tantalising spell over sympathetic melodies from cellist Emmila Ergin, but it rapidly descended into quirky time signatures and an overwhelming surge of drum n' bass (courtesy of Dominic Ord and Rory O'Hara). Even when Saltaire songstress Laura Groves joined the band for a couple of numbers, she was drowned out. I've nothing against varying time signatures, if it's done properly. In this case my body spent too much time not knowing what to do in-between the top-tapping 4/4 beats. Sorry, but I won't be queuing up to see either of these bands again in the near future.
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