The Dead 60s have been on the verge of a breakthrough for five years now. Formerly referred to as Pinhole, they've toured with Inexperienced Day and recorded a session with John Peel. Currently they are back, renamed, with an eponymous and massively successful debut album, and now new album, Time To Take Sides, due for unleash in August.
Tonight they are at The Soul Tree in Cambridge, England. The venue spends most of its time being a petite nightclub unfold over three floors however, simply for currently, it's just an intimate place for one in every of Britain's brightest music skills to prove that this point they mean business.
They need one support act, Wigan's The Suzukis, that the crowd wait patiently to witness. An hour once the doors open they strut onto stage and immediately begin to churn out their brand of unobtrusive punk. Rooted to the ground, they stand and holler at the lots before them. Their sound is somewhere between The Clash and Sum 41 and it's mostly uninspiring. They've bought a roadie with them who entertains a lot of than the band. He is dividing his time between running to and from the bar to provide his boys with a continuing stream of over-priced bottled beer, and dancing in jerked thrashing motions to every song. To be honest, he's the only factor expending energy.
Half-an-hour passes and The Suzukis run out of songs. The boring thump of the house music sparks keep a copy and we tend to're left to await the most act. And wait. It's almost as if they're missing a second support act tonight as a result of the gap between bands is interminable. A wander reveals that there is solely one floor of the venue open tonight. Downstairs is having a refit and upstairs is clearly out of bounds, that could be a shame. The top floor is an excellent balcony level and would have afforded a fine read of the bands through the large hole in the floor.
Back on the first floor the fans are restless and spilling out into the aisle and quickly the bouncers are out and making an attempt to revive a clearway. 5 minutes later and we tend to realise why. Here come back the Dead 60s through the crowd from the back and onto stage.
Immediately they're enjoying some new songs and it takes a very little while till they get a reaction. It's four songs in before the ska sound, for which they are loved, comes out. The response is immediate and the first 5 rows begin jumping politely on the spot.
It's laborious to really pigeon-hole the Dead 60s sound. They've been likened to The Specials however tonight it's like Madness have eaten The Stone Roses. Every song brings something else to the table. Dub, ska, punk, pop-rock, indie, even reggae makes an appearance. Typically it's a fusion of those which leads to a rather muddled delivery that takes some obtaining used to. Despite this the band is tight, honest and passionate. Keyboard/guitarist, Ben, drifts between instruments seamlessly, whilst lead vocalist, Matt, belches a fast volley of lyrics while staring unnervingly, nevertheless, unseeing into the eyes of the crowd.
0.5-method through their hour-long set they peak as they segue into their hit single, Riot Radio, allowing the simmering fans to briefly boil into a moshpit. Yet one more sequence of ethereal dub and they're bringing proceedings to a close. All too soon the pork-pie hats and polo shirts are filtering back outside, some perplexed faces amongst them. For the Dead 60s to actually blow their own horns their outstanding talent for penning a good tune they're going to need to decide on one clear sound. The first album was oozing with bouncing ska and dub, but a heap of tonight's new songs are slower, a lot of indie-oriented and they didn't quite cut the mustard live.
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