Pivot
Jack Ladder
First time rocking up to this venue since the revamp. Love a good underground venue. Ground level is so boring.
First live act Jack Ladder. Solo guitarist, with drummer adding rhythm and percussion for the first and the last tunes. Confronting, stark, did not dig the voice, not my cup of tea.
Between sets dj Mark Pritchard did a mighty impressive job, wonder why he waited so long to get started. But when he finally for his final scratch setup sorted, it was well worth it for the future tech dubstep selection.
Sydney's own lads Pivot makes good, gets signed to the famous Warp label. Celebrates with some live shows. I didn't really get into the Battles sound. Warp used to mean near-unlistenable glitchy drill'n bass. This new signing kinda treads similar grounds to their widely popular Battles, some kinda instrumental-post-prog-rock. Three lads on guitar, drums and keys. Louder, noisier, brasher performance than what I'd expected based on their prior CD. Sounds impressive enough, I look forward to hearing their next record. Still, for this local instrumental rock business, I still think Decoder Ring does it best.
Then Mark Pritchard continues to impressive with a rough drum'n bass selection. Nice!