Gig report

Went to see the Mojo Fins last night at Sumo in Brighton. An enjoyable night, although I felt (a) old and (b) like I was in a living version of MySpace.

First though, the support bands. Only caught the end of Mike Lord who was doing a cheap keyboard on demo setting cover version of Money for Nothing which was pretty funny but gave no hint of his own stuff being so good in a kind of Ben Folds / Ed Harcourt kind of way.

Then 4 0r 5 Magicians who were cool in that they were actually enjoying themselves. Very Pavementy.

Actress Hands were less successful, and looked like they just didn't want to be there. Teenage Fanclub is what they sounded like to me, without the fun.

The Mojo Fins then. (1) they are a good band with some excellent ideas. It was a shame they only had time for a fairly rushed set. Seeing as they haven't played in Brighton for 6 months and were headlining it's bad that they didn't have longer.

To be construcitve, they actually sounded best musically on the instrumental they played at the end in terms of the balance between instruments. I think they should try their current bassist on keyboards, tall guitarist on bass, leaving curly haired guitarist as main singer. And get the drummer a non-picolo snare as it sounds rubbish.