I'm writing this to you in reverse...
After a few bugs of jeer at the Lox and Fion on Friday night, I headed along to see Texan band Spoon at the Forum Theatre. A first for me on both band and venue fronts and I was mightly pleased with all outcomes.
The Forum is a really well-laid out venue with an ample sized dancefloor, a bunch of different levels and mezzanines and various bars placed in super convenient locations. There's even a get-out-of-jail-free exit with an aforementioned bar placed appropriately close to our little spot stage right. This is handy if you need to de-beer your body mid-set, you can actually go without making enemies with half of Sydney.
First things first. I wasn't aware of this before but the lead singer, Britt Daniel, is a bona-fide indie babe and he's on that very elusive and also very short "I'm allowed to wear skinny jeans because they actually make my bum look good" list. And he took pleasure in bending over, bum to audience, on many a pleasing occasion.
There's a British quality about Spoon that I really like... Perhaps it's in their "I'm a rockstar baby but I still have a sense of humour" swagger.
At this point I should probably mention the music before KB, one of my dates for the evening, votes me off the island for being vacuous and shallow.
Spoon as a band were tight, charismatic and musically spot on. One of my pet peeves at gigs is that set structure can be largely ignored with bands pulling you one way and then the other in an unpleasant tug o' war of tunes. Spoon hit it flipping spot-on mixing a couple of older tracks with a bunch of tracks from their new album Transference and kept me dancing to their melodic, piano-driven rock the entire night.
I think I might have even lost a bit of myself.
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