[from Brisbane, Australia] for
some reason, I remembered this band as sounding like The Slits but they don’t
and they didn’t so I can get over that disappointment – they’re pop punk at
best and 90s pop alt-rock at their worst – they’re from Australia – they’re not
bad but get tiresome, especially with the lead singer’s need to constantly
promote her personal image of a life-embracing free-spirit hippie-punk –
although I did enjoy her description of having to clench her vagina to hold on
while sitting on the shoulders of one of the audience members – is Australia more
sexually liberal than the US? – she rode the shoulders of this white Mr. T in
order to swirl her ribbon in the middle of the crowd in burner fashion – the
awkward Mr. T was forthwith smitten and the most engaged member of the audience
and the first to the merch table after the show - otherwise she was all pretty
smiles and engaging friendly banter - of the same school as all of the bands
that have ‘clap’ in their titles and the joyous-thrash neo-new-wave bands – her
jumpy performance made it clear why they opened for The Go! Team the first time
I saw them - the more moderately happy guitarist did an impressive and thorough
job with the soundcheck, I thought – there was a bearded keyboardist – my
favorite though is the drummer: she’s a little awkward curly haired school girl
with round eyes and when she gets going on the drums, her eyes glaze over and
she smiles vaguely at nothing like a bobblehead (Photo courtesy of
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