Hey there. We have had a couple of reviews for last weeks headdline set at the HiFi Club in leeds. Both are very different but its good to hear two contrasting opinions. Anyhow, thanks again to everyone who cam down. The sandman mixing tin review should be printed shortly...

StudentGuru.com wrote...

"A little more panto from Testament and quintet InFlightMovie take to the stage. A sample of sounds opens the set, keys and the rest of the band join in and vocals top the song off. Gradually building, the effect of the opening is subtle, the keys give it an indescribable nostalgic feel to the song but as noise levels rise with a sense of foreboding ensuing the song is brought up to date. By the second song I find myself slowly being hypnotized by a chiming drop of sunlit guitar and a soft-focus vocal topping it off with the bass and drums underpinning and keeping me in reality. The lap-top gives off some interesting sounds and the next song sees the guitar getting all dirty and the vocals more penetrating, less ethereal, more threatening. This all stops for a few sound effects then crunches back into the song.

InFlightMovie don't grab the listener immediately like how The Printed Sound does, but they draw you in, bit by bit. The keys nagging away at your underbelly while the guitars / bass / drums roar away into their own oblivion, drawing on the odd sample to bring you into and out of consciousness.

The band dedicate their BYT track 'On Your Own' to Anna Jefferson and all involved in this year's Bright Young Things. The song slowly beguiles its way into your senses. Those who don't get it drift away to the bar and start chattering. The rest of us stay locked in to the sounds emanating from the stage sounding both harsh and beautiful all at the same time. The band try to be a little funkier on the next one but soon give up and drift off into post rock territory, then bring the song back to life with a sharp blast of melody and rock. The lead guitarist has what looks like a spasm and lurches around his part of the stage totally lost in his own little world. The next song is dedicated to the lead singers' father who is in hospital at the moment. Both these last couple of songs tends to meander a little bit, keeping it just the right side of post rock testing the patience of its audience.

They end with 'Tell Me When' and announce they have t-shirts and Cds for sale. This song is probably the nearest to a pop song that the band have played tonight. The guitarist goes all spasmodic again and the night is over. I would love to see InFlightMovie and The Printed Soundhave a crack at Futuresound, and thanks to last year's exploits by Ali Whitton and Ben Wetherill, maybe Martin Hughes could have a go. I think the quality of the three diverse acts tonight has been that good."

Chris Oddy

BBC Leeds Wrote...

"Another lightning change over brought us onto the final band of the evening In Flight Movie who look so "now" it hurts. Be-decked in dapper waistcoats and ties they fit effortlessly into the current indie left of centre stylings and are all fantastic musicians to boot.

Unfortunately though it all comes across as "too many cooks...." and the brilliant riffs, bridges and interludes that IFM possess end up lost in a mix of keyboards and virtuso guitar playing. At times they came up with some of the most brilliant guitar parts I've ever heard but never seemed interested on building them into the rip-snorting songs they so richly deserved to be instead opting to throw the audience off on a completely different tangent.

Maybe they were having a bad night or maybe the whole point of IFM is to delight and confuse in equal measure but I couldn't help thinking that there were maybe two or three different bands on stage at once fighting with eachother to be heard.

All in all a great night with three very different but very talented bands who thoroughly deserve any success that comes their way. A night 9.20pm finish though? Give us an encore!"

Rob saw In Flight Movie, The Printed Sound and Martin Hughes as part of Bright Young Things at the Hi-Fi Club on Wednesday 22 March 2006.