THE MAE SHI + JOHNNY FOREIGNER
Kings College WC2
Tuesday 13th May, 8pm
Yes, them again. But first! Johnny Foreigner tried to break the ice by asking if anyone had commited suicide. And that was the highlight! The world already has Help She Can’t Swim and Los Compesinos!, so it doesn’t need another person to sing in that bloody voice. The rest of the night panned out as follows:
Apologies, 56Kers, if there’s any of you left! This lot play Nastyfest at the Faversham in Leeds with No Age and Yeasayer and some other dates in the UK before running away screaming back to ELLAYY.
Everyone has their favourite Sudbury, Ontario based power pop trio, I’m sure. But I bet yours isn’t as good as mine: Statues are on Deranged and were raised on whoops and three chords and the stylings of Vic Reeves. I blame this past week of beautiful weather that I was told only appears in London every other blue moon (which is better than some; I am still convinced that the sun ever shines on Manchester. Singling out Morrissey’s solo career as the reason for meteorological wrath) for my audio preferences leaning towards the happy hardcore way of life, but I would also adhere significant leverage to this record lifting the weather out of the doldrums too; ‘Same Bodies, Same Faces’ has many things and those things include sing-a-long-a-longssss and an ability to make GG Allin seem like a nice fella. Jesus Crikey.
Caught the sods playing the New Cross Inn with amongst others The Shitty Limits but I will be tacking them later and yeah… ‘Living In Lines’ and ‘Distance/Duration’ are anthems that if kids listened to them instead of mopey things they’d have a smile to go with that jarring choice of hair colour. Sample them below. One thing that erks me, however: Mr. Rob of Statues? You look like my dad if he spent his time listening to The Vibrators instead of Yes.
They’ve just done a European tour which you’ve missed because you are slow and if you’re Canadian then I’m sure they might play near you. But then again, Canada’s a really big country. Perhaps you should make do by buying records and the like: myspace dot com slash statues.
