25
Jun
Two Thousand and Grate.
The Grates played a secret show incognito (albeit in name only, no disguises :( ) last night at the Troubadour in Brisbane to test their new material / burn off some excess energy before the secret shows and music festivals in a few weeks time. They played six songs from the new album. Besides Burn Bridges I really loved Earthquake, Biggest Largest Adventure Ever and Aw Yeah . Look out for these cracking new tunes among others at Splendour, on the album, at the secret shows etc., they’ll be big I tell ya, BIG. All the new stuff sounds heaps epic. Not as poppy, as brilliantly poppy as their last album was, but now the new stuff just sounds larger. I don’t know how else to describe it but is is a cool thing.
Disappointments of the night: My shouted response from the middle of the room of “Two Thousand and Grate” to Patience saying it was “the best Tuesday night of 2008” didn’t get much more than a nod of the head from the girl next to me. That was my best material. Also, Patience didn’t marry me and I didn’t see a girl I was hoping to see there but that’s not really The Grates’ fault I guess.
The best bits: they still totally bounce around the stage like little carebears shot up with taurine, are as cutely rainbow mouthed as ever on stage but off stage are the most laid back nice people with the show ending with Patience giving the crowd hugs after crowd surfing to the back of the venue then all band members hanging around for an hour or more chatting to people and the confirmation they they are web 2.0 compliant after I told them they had the best Australian band blog before then talking tumblr, twitter, social networks with John.
All in all: 5 out of 3.
