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Category: Music
Here's another review by our friend, Alice Dee. Thanx Alice! Keep 'em coming, boys and girls...
http://www.myspace.com/alicedeetvbHey,
just a quick few words about the gig.
12/06/2009- Punishment of Luxury @ The Luminaire.
It was such a shock to have the chance to see this band. I really never expected it.
They're one of those acts that you rarely mention liking as they're still cult and people just haven't heard of them in their masses. When you do mention them and someone else also likes them, it's like meeting a long lost relative.
The night was filled with the subdued northern accents of ex-pats (like me) and those brave and committed north easterners who travelled down and a few southerners too, of course!
It was like a trip home!
I was so excited about this gig, the first drink went straight to my head and even though I normally would give support acts a chance, I really wanted the show to get underway.
After making our way to front, centre stage in readiness, I realised that there could be a crush, but shit, who cares on a night like this.
Then it started...Blasting in with Puppet Life. This band were so ahead of their time and still hadn't dated. It sounded fresh, funky, raw and raucous and very now. The whole room swung to the heavy and quirky prog-proto-punk, spat out by these unlikely (and lets face it older!) incongruous characters.
I'd like to find something to compare it with, but there are little bits of all sorts in there. Cardiacs, ATV, Dr. Feelgood, XTC, the list could go on, but really there's no point, Suffice to say, that like all the greatest bands, they won't be pinned to a genre and are in fact a genre of their own!
They managed to squeeze a couple of new numbers in amongst the "hits" and good they were, revisiting some bluesier, RnB roots, obviously in their own oddball fashion.
However, there wasn't a person there that night that didn't want to hear Excess Bleeding Heart, Jellyfish, All White Jack, Obsession and B-B-B-B-Brainbomb. I have to say I would've have been gutted if the set had been any different. It really gave the crowd exactly want it needed.
I haven't danced so much at a gig for ages. All I could hear the next day, were punilux tracks round and round in my head. Testament to the greatness of this long awaited re-appearance. Please come out to play again,....
Alice Dee.
11:59 PM
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