I’m still here, still kicking, still doing it. Though lacking in the old pioneering spirit of yesteryear, regrettably. Bones getting too old for the dancefloors, the heart is struggling, the lungs can’t keep up.
But as long as the local scene keeps dishing out the quality grooves, I’ll still be boogying down. In the year 2080, I’ll be the oldest grandpa still on the dancefloors. Breaking hips to broken beats.
Going out on a Friday night, wet and soggy. But it’d take a lot more to stop us from spending another evening with the rough dubbed out drum’n bass flavours of the Bird. On the side we also get the groovy electro of Hermitude and Good Buddha representing the aussie hip hop.
Hermitude had a tough time. Poor crowd turn out, and a ridiculously short set. Barely half an hour! Didn’t really get to show off their skills. We’ve seen them do some funkier, more tech, more dancefloor stuff than this. But tonight they choose to lean more towards hip hop. Shame. Still, a group worth catching up with whenever the chance pops up.
Good Buddha was advertised as the headlining act, but they popped up on stage next. Probably the right decision. We retreated to the side for deep inside, we’re not really hip hop heads. Good Buddha managed to draw in a much larger crowd, but still there were repeated calls for people to move on up and fill the dancefloor. I guess ultimately, the gig wasn’t really advertised at all.
While waiting around for the Bird to get ready, there was a spotlight on the dancefloor.
You ought to know.
A set of scruffy double decker keyboards and part garbage bins, part chemical containers and part drum kit. The Bird starts off with some heavy, chunky, Asian drum’n bass rhythms, then precedes to dig through their back catalogue. I’m glad they’re not changing their sound like they have on record. Either that, or they play their new songs totally differently live. Entirely possible with this band. The tent was steaming, to the point that the electronics began to play up. The set mellowed down a bit to some dancehall and dub flavours, finishing off more hard breaks than drum’n bass really. Ar, fuck genres. The point is, they playfully skipped and bounced across different styles, they still create enough live energy to get any crowd jumping, and to the best of my knowledge, they’re still the best live band in Sydney, rock or dance or whatever sub genres within.