Morning After Girls
>> Barfly
>> 22nd May 2006
Tonight, the Barfly plays host to Kerrang’s Most Wanted Tour. And the band I came to see is The Morning After Girls. And already I’m confused. Last time I picked up Kerrang (after shouldering my way past half a dozen 13 year old, depressed yet foul mouthed emo girls to get to the magazine shelf) all the featured bands had very nice trendy haircuts and everyone of them seemed to claim the title of “most dangerous band in the world” or something. I’m fairly certain that Smash Hits magazine went out of business because Kerrang snapped up all their writers. The Morning After Girls don’t seem to fit in with bands like Trivium, Fightstar, Fall Out Boy, Lost Prophets (and so on, and so on, and so on….) but this tour sees them team up with electro-grind-metal-instrumentalists 65 Days Of Static; WTF???
So, with the huge Kerrang banner dominating the stage behind them, the Morning After Girls take to the stage and do their thing. Laid back but not lazy, their sound is very Dandy Warholes-esque, with perhaps a stone roses edge thrown in every now and again. Harmonies are tight and definitely grab your attention when three or four voices are used at any one time, and the amount of reverb being used tonight, it actually sounds like a choir singing from the bottom of a valley. Beautiful.
However, the songs are rather samey; the Girls know what they do well but they seem unwilling to stray too far away from that sound. The standout song of the night was Hidden Spaces as it changed the pace of the set quite suddenly and grabbed the attention once again. Soon to be released single, Run For Our Lives is well worth a listen too, with an almost Oasis-y swaggering rhythm throughout it makes for a real, feel good toe tapper. I wasn’t blown away tonight, but The Morning After Girls sound good on record.
So perhaps it was because the venue really seemed devoid of any kind of atmosphere tonight (as is often the case with the eclectic magazine sponsored tours trying to provide something for everyone) but I’d wait to see the Girls play one of their own shows before I really make my mind up. Those with tickets to T in the Park (you lucky, lucky bastards) can check them out there.
>> Dave O'Neill
www.themorningaftergirls.com
www.myspace.com/themorningaftergirls
>> 22nd May 2006
Tonight, the Barfly plays host to Kerrang’s Most Wanted Tour. And the band I came to see is The Morning After Girls. And already I’m confused. Last time I picked up Kerrang (after shouldering my way past half a dozen 13 year old, depressed yet foul mouthed emo girls to get to the magazine shelf) all the featured bands had very nice trendy haircuts and everyone of them seemed to claim the title of “most dangerous band in the world” or something. I’m fairly certain that Smash Hits magazine went out of business because Kerrang snapped up all their writers. The Morning After Girls don’t seem to fit in with bands like Trivium, Fightstar, Fall Out Boy, Lost Prophets (and so on, and so on, and so on….) but this tour sees them team up with electro-grind-metal-instrumentalists 65 Days Of Static; WTF???
So, with the huge Kerrang banner dominating the stage behind them, the Morning After Girls take to the stage and do their thing. Laid back but not lazy, their sound is very Dandy Warholes-esque, with perhaps a stone roses edge thrown in every now and again. Harmonies are tight and definitely grab your attention when three or four voices are used at any one time, and the amount of reverb being used tonight, it actually sounds like a choir singing from the bottom of a valley. Beautiful.
However, the songs are rather samey; the Girls know what they do well but they seem unwilling to stray too far away from that sound. The standout song of the night was Hidden Spaces as it changed the pace of the set quite suddenly and grabbed the attention once again. Soon to be released single, Run For Our Lives is well worth a listen too, with an almost Oasis-y swaggering rhythm throughout it makes for a real, feel good toe tapper. I wasn’t blown away tonight, but The Morning After Girls sound good on record.
So perhaps it was because the venue really seemed devoid of any kind of atmosphere tonight (as is often the case with the eclectic magazine sponsored tours trying to provide something for everyone) but I’d wait to see the Girls play one of their own shows before I really make my mind up. Those with tickets to T in the Park (you lucky, lucky bastards) can check them out there.
>> Dave O'Neill
www.themorningaftergirls.com
www.myspace.com/themorningaftergirls
