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The Favours, Dirty Dreamers, Sweet Assassin
at The Welly Club on 16th Sept 04
By Andy Dykes
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Tonight's openers Sweet Assassin get proceedings underway with an apology.
Their bassist hasn't turned up and so they welcome onto the stage Paul, a real, bona fide session musician.
The band open with a punchy little number called 'Touch Me I'm Sick'.
It's a solid effort, although the action onstage looks a little like a practice session.
And understandably so. But by the third song, the real Sweet Assassin bassist has arrived.
Paul gets a round of applause and within seconds he's down at the bar.
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With the whole band now present, Sweet Assassin really get into their groove.
The singer stomps around the stage with a hint of Karen O about her.
The music itself is dark rock, with a hint of metal.
But the guitarist seems to be the most unnecessarily skilled musician in Hull.
Not that his talent, licks and rock n roll faces aren't mighty impressive.
It's just that you've got to wonder how much howling pinch harmonics and crazy finger
tapping contribute to Sweet Assassin's sound.
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A decent cover of Marilyn Manson's 'Coma White' thrown into the set, the Sweet Assassin
experience on the whole is quite enjoyable.
Before I go any further, I would like to say that Dirty Dreamers is a great name for a band.
Names aside, the band aren't bad either.
They look and sound like a proper rock n roll band, a hint of blues with salutes to AC/DC or
perhaps, dare I say it, Jet here and there.
The sound is totally polished and the performance is confident and seamless.
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The track Dirty Dreamers is the highlight of the set; a tambourine shaking beast of a
track that rocks and roars with a real AC/DC vibe, until the bass amp dies.
Then the song stops. And then it kicks in again. Perfectly.
The last song of the set sounds like something Black Sabbath might've written, owing
much of its pace and catchiness to 'Paranoid'. All in all, a pretty triumphant set.
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The Favours look as though they're in the nonchalant throes of a sound check when they begin their set.
The guitarist begins battering sounds out of his guitar and then, BANG! the whole
band kick in. Tighter than a mouse's ear.
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The opener is the kind of song that turns heads and straight away The Favours have
the audience in the palm of their hand.
And that's the way the set continues.
Each song crashes into the next, hitting the audience with the impact of a nailbomb.
And yet despite the power and he passion, there's a certain vulnerability about The Favours.
Perhaps it's in the angst of the frontwoman Sara's lyrics:
I don't give a fuck what you say and I don't need anything from you but to name a
pair of the more pointed efforts.
Such openness and vulnerability sits well the frantic, intricate, punchy tunes.
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With their pop sensibilities and punk overtones, The Favours perform a fulfilling live show.
The music is faultless in its melodies and attitude, as is the live performance in
its raucous intensity.
I'm reminded a little of The Pixies, but perhaps if Frank Black passed all singing
duties to Kim Deal.
How these guys aren't courting major label attention, and flirting with the charts is beyond me.
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Tonight it seems to be over all too quickly.
By way of a change, the lead guitarist of The Favours doesn't end up rolling
around on the floor as the set comes to a close.
If you know The Favours, then you'll know that's how the show normally ends.
If you don't know The Favours, then you really should.
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Photos By Darren Rogers
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What can I say, other than what an amazing night!
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I walk through the door of The Piper tonight, straight into a wall of sound
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This band is Displacements.
It's hard to figure out exactly what's going on until they introduce a little subtlety.
And then it all starts to sound pretty good.
Vocally, neither singer
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I've heard tonight's openers The Morphines described as something like Ian Curtis singing
with The Clash.
If my musical arithmetic is correct, then The Morphines should sound something like Sham 69.
And they do. A bit.
While the garage rock revival grips the world like nuclear war, The Morphines hark back to an era
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