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| NJC: Foxy Shazam Live Review | |
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Dr_Rock 03:10 pm UTC 11/09/10 |
| For those of you wondering why I'm posting a review of a band completely unrelated to Jim on here it's because I know at least half a dozen of you like this band's music. Following the posting of some of their music on here I obtained their 3 albums (1st two are shite, 3rd is very good indeed) and then went to see them perform live last night. Their lead singer is Eric Nally who co-wrote 2 of the crapper tracks on Meat's Hang Cool Teddy Bear with Justin Hawkins. You can see a clip of them performing a song live at the link below. Foxy Shazam are like drunken sex! Unfortunately I don't mean the kind where you're both slightly tipsy and she's open to suggestions on experimenting with things she won't normally do. I mean when you're absolutely leathered and it's just the same repetitive motions for 45 minutes without any real sense of satisfaction or climax until you both decide to give up and think about all the more useful ways you could have spent the time. Given that the much-hyped show at London's Borderline was a sell out there were also far more people in the room than would normally be present during sex -well, unless you're a Premier League footballer. It all started so well. Even though starting with a speech and a stage dive is unconventional, there is so much that is unconventional about this band. Their looks for a start; and their non-stop energy which saw them pound through 5 tracks from their latest eponymous album and a Misfits cover before Eric Nally got to his party piece. The lead singer is a madcap, camp, squeaky-voiced bundle of energy with a voice and stage manner reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. Indeed the sound of the band very closely resembled classic Queen. The party piece of which I speak is Eric lighting 5 cigarettes and then proceeding to put them in his mouth and chew them up whilst singing, spitting them out over the next 5 minutes. This, coupled with throwing pound coins into the audience, overshadowed the other members of the band who are all very talented musicians and were very tight. To overshadow a bassist with hair like Bet Lynch on a very windy day and a keyboard player with close-cropped hair and a 2 foot beard who jumped up and down on the keys is no mean feat. At this point it did get quite tedious. The songs are catchy and I enjoy the album but they're pretty similar musically and lyrically they're mediocre at best. The stage antics and Eric's crap stage banter were also becoming a bit like watching monkeys at the zoo throw their shit at each other. Very funny to begin with but something of which you easily tire. When they announced they were going to end on a boring note, and the audience were to boo them as they sang a short babershop style piece, we wondered what would happen next. Eric would slam the mic onto the stage and walk off leaving everyone waiting is what happened next. They hadn't even done Wanna Be Angel and didn't come back for an encore. The audience kind of drifted away bemused and let down which led this reviewer to come up (no pun intended) with the drunken sex analogy. Granted it's still sex but the lasting feeling was one of disappointment when it could so easily have been something a whole lot more uplifting. | |
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