review

i find it really hard to write about music. how do you describe sounds? do you compare them to something else you hope someone else has heard? do you get all technical and talk about the time changes? i just don't know.
i confess that as much as i enjoy listening to music and as much as i enjoy going to gigs there is something not quite right about gigs - i can never hear all the song, the vocals are never very clear. perhaps i am going deaf.
the concert environment is about energy.

last night at the spitz there was not much energy from the audience (it was a free gig and so only mates of mates were there).
but the two bands i saw played it like the place was full and played it for real.

hello geiger featured a female singer who looked a little like judie tzuke (showing my age here) and had a good strong rock voice. hesitant at first the bass heavy band got into a nice groove and belted out a few numbers mixing up the pace between slow and rocky. apparently it was their second gig, on the basis of this they will get regular work.

dirty notes were much more at ease on the stage with a confident line in patter and a tight sound. coming from the irish rock tradition that has spawned such bands as stiff little fingers, horslips and thin lizzy (though not quite on a par with them)they played with gusto and verve. the keyboard was lost in the mix but the guitar and bass did a wonderful job.

both bands i would go and see again. neither band i expect to do much in terms of commercial success.