Freitag, 25. Apr 2008, 5:54

Wed 23 Apr – Soulwax, Concorde 2 Brighton

When the likes of Muse and Radiohead become stupidly huge, I have never understood why Belgium's finest export, Soulwax (yes, even better than Stella Artois and chocolate sea shells. And IMHO better than Muse and Radiohead for that matter - oooh gonna get some stick for that!), have always remained somewhat in the shadows …Not that I mind of course - it means I don't have to pay the best part of £100 to squint at them from half a mile away in a stadium…

Maybe part of this lack of recognition its because people get confused as to what Soulwax actually are; prolific remixer producers (sometimes under the moniker 2 Many DJs), dance music act, or one of the best alternative rock bands of recent years?

Well for me, Soulwax are a rock band and I love them longtime. So when they play a local venue I am not going to turn down the opportunity to see them, even if they are going to be playing the 'Nite Versions' dance set without a Marshall stack in sight - and I know that will probably annoy me just a little bit…

Personally I never really got on with the Nite Versions album (consisting
mainly of dancey reinterpretations of tracks off Soulwax's superb Any Minute Now album). Add to that tonights billed 10pm till 3am showtime - perhaps a bit much for a school night - and all in all there is a risk of things going all belly-up for me… but ah, how sweet to be proved so very wrong..!

From the moment the band took to the stage and fired up that pair of shipping-container sized bass bins to the strains of the nite version of E Talking, we were surely in for quite a night. Looking uber serious, sharply dressed in shiny white suits, playing much and talking little, here was a band that meant business. And it was very good and very, very loud indeed.

So…OK guys, so that WAS pretty good, but WHEN will you be playing some PROPER music again :-) With guitars and stuff? When can I get to see a Soulwax rock set?

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~monkton/last/sw1.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~monkton/last/sw2.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~monkton/last/sw3.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~monkton/last/sw4.JPG

Miserable Girl (Sound very distorted until 0:50)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5ZIkCWeeY