Crystal Castles - Cyprus Avenue, Cork (an hour ago)
Support act, The Karman Line, were pretty good. More @ http://www.myspace.com/thekarmanline.
Crystal Castles, hmmm. Exploded onto the stage, with a track that I didnt recognise. Ethan and live drummer where excellent, the sound the live drums provide with the synth/mixer work from Ethan were faultless.
Then theres the Alice part. Her performance as part of the 35/40 minute set was all energy, pouts, scowls, poses like a Madonna on acid during Vogue, she is the band for the whole performance, writhing on stage and into the crowd soaking up the adoration (and tonight, Cork loved her). It looked alot like the crowd from the Foals gig came straight to Cork for this, because I have never seen people like this crowd at a Cork gig before. Anyway, back to Alice, the clever strobes, and dramatic hair and makeup, make her all action performance worth the admission fee; she is an electronic version of Karen O. She scream, howls and hisses her way through the Castles new album, belting out Crimewave, Untrust Us , Alice Practice, Magic Spells and the nights highlight for me Courtship Dating, all well received. But, and maybe this was just me, by the time 35/40 minutes had passed, Id had enough. No crowd interaction, no clever vocals like in Air Wars (which wasnt played), just howling, hissing and growling. I was a bit disappointed tbh.
Jurys still out
5/5 first 20 minutes 2/5 last 20 minutes
Reckless from camera phone - loud
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