Interviews and Reviews
Concert
Review
Anodyne, Automatic, Effigy
Coakley's Fremantle
Sunday August 3 1997
If you wonder why Anodyne do not seem to get much coverage in Bubblehead, it is not we don't like them, actually they are one of my favourite local bands, it just the Chris Fuller, Anodyne's vocalist/guitarist also reviews for Bubblehead. So not to seem to playing favourites, I avoid reviewing them, which is shame, because they are good and tonight their noisy moody, pop fitted in with well with Automatic.
Any band named after a Jesus and Mary Chain album has to be all right in my books (this comes from somebody whose dogs are named after another JAMC album Ed.). The JAMC with a dash of the Pixies are a good reference point for Automatic's sound, noisy distorted guitars, plenty of feedback and some good pop/rock songs. Sister K their last single, got the best reaction from the crowd and is one of their stronger songs, but there were plenty more. They finished with one the guitarist, throwing his guitar on to the speaker stack, then attempting to play it with a water bottle, before emptying the contents on to the guitar, couldn't waste good beer. Visually fun, but musically far more entertaining, it looks like their new Transmitter album has moved onto my must buy list.
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After sitting on the floor, the audience moved up close to the stage ten minutes before Effigy came on. there were not disappointed. First up Small, them more tracks from their album, with a couple of new tracks like Misfits mixed in. Before finishing with I Give In, which got the best reaction of the night, Average Child and for the encore Lovers. Effigy's Goth pop image, is softening, with only Peter dressed for the occasion in a suit that a young chartered accountant would die for, More importantly for me, the electronics which dominated their music when they first returned from Melbourne almost a year ago, have now disappeared by Peter's effects driven guitar. and the new songs are just as dark, moody and at times spiteful, as the old ones, just the way I like. It was a good night, probably not my favourite Effigy show though, principally because I had to share the dance floor with a few hundred other people, not like the last time Effigy played Coakley's 18 months ago, when I was the only one of the dance floor for most of their set. Still you can’t be spoilt for ever, and Effigy deserve the success.
Review
and photos by Nick Cowie (flashboy@cygnus.uwa.edu.au)
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