Scarborough Beached Festival 2005 Sunday By Michelle Dee (6/9) By Michelle Dee Photographs by Roland Standaert and Michelle Dee

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Parisman - A sci-fi beginning starts this bands set, with one keyboard amongst a trio of keyboards that seems to be playing on its own. The piano led sound, of the local favourites back for a third time, is infused with short guitar bursts and whispered vocals, if you want to save your breath? More strange vocalisations and looped voices create layer upon layer of sound. Guitar sounds are suitably space-like creating an eclectic esoteric atmosphere: as the darkness drew in and the waves washed out in time to the hypnotic drumbeats. There appears to be more and more of these experimental type bands with no set structure and Parisman of Leeds compliment this growing genre.

Tokyo luck incorporates laser beams and guitar screams with the drummer taking an active vocal role in the effects-laden Indie music. Pulsing keyboard sounds and other worldly flurries make it hard to determine from whence the sound doth come. A high-pitched vocal has me scanning the stage yet again trying ascertain who is making the sweet sound. I settle upon the idea that they are not here in body, but hear in head. In a strong northern dialect the front man announces, This is us last song now and robotic voices mechanically respond... Fate, Destiny, Life... and a recognisably dance number emerges through the electric-blue mist.

The drummer takes the lead on this one, singing strong, repetitive lines of drawn out vocal. The final castle-shaking roar underlines their ferocious mix of guitar sound, percussion and electronica.

The Young Offenders - This band were not to my taste. They were neither lyrically challenging nor musically adept. Their easy rhymes were immature and undemanding; offenders, pretenders, going on benders? I have seen more potential from high school kids. The songs are filled with cheap glorifying references to drugs. They will probably have some appeal but the whole thing looks too packaged. The loud lager-swilling punk noise mixed with Mancunian rap all set against the backdrop of disaffected youth. This time there is the added inclusion of prison cool thrown in.

This is evidenced in the numerous references to doing time. There is perhaps a message for da kids hidden somewhere but it is lost on this crowd that is becoming more riotous by the minute.

The lead singer is an accident waiting to happen and could probably have just come from one of the H.M.P.s he is singing about. For some inexplicable reason some of the crowd choose this moment to start waving lighters totally undeserved for this bunch of drunken soulless and as I was to witness later, thoroughly obnoxious group.

This was an appropriation I wrote at the time that summed up their lyrical ability: I've done a six-month stretch man But now I'm free, it's time to party. Gonna get high, gonna hit the sky. Take a hit, smoke some shit. Going on an acid trip. The fact that they ended their set with a repeat of their first song just underlined their mediocrity and the rudeness witnessed backstage left me hoping never to have to hear their caterwauling again.

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