I’m getting old. Every new band sounds like a pale imitation of another, better one. Take my last Saturday’s outing as an example: The Snow Patrol show at Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto. I’ve only been back in the “real world” for two months now, so it’s been ages since I’ve seen anything other than Lefty Lucy or Will Black singing mediocre “worst of the 80s, 90s and today” to poorly produced backing tracks. So I thought it would be easy to impress me. Wow. A band I’ve heard of! What a letdown.
First Up: Silversun Pickups. Hello? Pixies clone?? Right down to the kinda-cute female bassist.
Next Up: OK Go. A pale imitation of Sloan.
And Finally: Snow Patrol. Damn, these guys sound like Coldplay on downers. Too much time spent on production, not enough on building energy. Not until Run, and the last song, did they really open up and actually look like they were having a good time.
Lefty Lucy and Will Black rock, go home you suck.
Signed,
Ewart Brown