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Rocket Bar, Leeds Wednesday
3rd May 2000
from www.fourdayhombre.co.uk
It's the opening night of the Cockpit's new
venue, the Rock-it. It's JJ72, a band who are signed, have upcoming single
releases and an album, and are getting vast amounts of press coverage, the
general tone of which is that these guys are some sort of musical messiahs. So
why is it that this whole event suddenly turns into a fourteen year olds
"My First Band" night? The gear is not the best we've ever seen. The
venue is rather sparsley populated and as for JJ72, well. I'm not sure how our
site deals with expletives but they suck the Devils fat corkscrew one. Personal
I thought it was laughable. We play quite averagely, difficulties with borrowed
gear and the most appaulingly tuned drum kit in the history of gaffer-tape.
Perhaps someone should have told the drummer that the aim is to tighten the
skins once you've put them on the shell, not just apply masking tape until it
sounds somewhere near. My old drum tutor would have actually died laughing. So,
we play our set and the handful of JJ72 fans actually seem to like us, clapping
enthusiastically and one or two even bounced along. If only they'd reacted like
that to the band they actually came to see. The end of JJ72's second song sees
the audience make no noise whatsoever, I mean not even a random comedy cough in
the background. The only noise is the rather lame ringing of the worlds most
amusingly tuned bass drum. (Ask Craig if you think I'm exagerating about the
kit.) Anyway, the Tour Manager decides to pull them off early, whether this is
to save the band, or the audience is not clear. What a farce, if they are the
future of music, I'm taking up kniting for a living.
Gig Rating : JJ72 - New addition to the
marking scheme means : Support band played reasonably, Headline band were simply
awful.
