Daddy's Little Princess This Friday

jmc

DADDY’S LITTLE PRINCESS
“Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide

"You saw the light so you came in, you're gonna figgght, but you won't winnn. Until your earrrs start bleedin'... I'm just a pretty boy, whatchyou gonna do about it..." - - Daddy's Little Princess 'Little Hurricane'. 2 mins, 41 secs. Deadly.

Having rocked their coming-out prom at Whelans during the summer, Daddy’s Little Princess pay a visit to The Village, Dublin this Friday, November 21st '03.

Imagine a noise that is loud, promiscuous, heartbroken, hetero-erotic, homo-superior and gutter fabulous.

Imagine the feral hiss of The Pistols, G ‘n’ R and The Stooges, the dark, decadent opulence of Auntie Ziggy and Uncle Lou, the tenderised melancholy of The Smiths, early Suede and The Buzzcocks.

Imagine the band playing in your head when you wake up in your make up, still drunk, and you feel like dirt but you look fantastic.

Daddy’s Little Princess is that band.

Ask them for some references and they’ll cite Roxy Music’s shoes, Rod Stewart’s hair, Jane’s Addiction’s trousers, The Who’s volume, John Lydon’s wit, Kate Moss’s eyes, Paul Simenon’s cheekbones and the tenderness of Marvin Gaye.
If they were an actress they’d be Julie Christie directed by Peter Greenaway.

There’s singer Enda, whose phrasing veers between sluttish yelp and Bowie baritone. There’s Pete, the guitarist with the pinstripe jacket and cubist Faces shag cut. There’s Kieran, the other guitarist, the one who dresses like a pimp. Plays like one too. These two riff off each other like Ronson and Jones, and in their fancier moments try on some twin-lead Thin Lizzy. Then there’s Shaggy the bass player; he don’t say much. Drummer Dara don’t say much either, but even the dogs in the street know they can hold down a dirty groove.

Songs like ‘Dyna-Rod Man’ (“I fell in love with the man in the Dyna-Rod van / ’Cos I know he can deal with my . . . ****!”), ‘Liquid Love’ and ‘My Addiction’ are torrid triple-X home movies distinguished by catty asides and ostentatious slabs of noise.

Other songs like ‘Darkest Day’ are mini-musicals that want to sleep with their fathers, murder their mothers and wander the city at night secretly longing to be held like babies.

Awww . . .

Tickets for The Village gig this Friday are €12 (inc. booking fee) are on sale now from Road, Soundcellar and usual outlets.

magpie

Methinks Santa's Little Helper needs someone new to write their press releases. I've never read such a load of unmitigated bollocks in my life. Which is a shame, as I went to see them at Whelan's, and they were pretty good. I was going to go to the shelter gig but all that "influenced by Roxy Music's shoes" ****e is putting me off rightly...

jmc

Just passin' it on, was written up by a mate of the band. It's them havin' a bit of a laugh, and a look, and still playing good music, rockin' out like they did at the last gig at Whelans.

Some of the the great, rock 'n' roll figures they mention (Pistols, Auntie Ziggy, Uncle Lou) were defined as much by all of the above too. I wouldn't let it put you off going to see them again.

magpie

Funny that the drummer used to be in a country and western band until recently... guess that's where he learned to hold down that "dirty groove"?

Though you are right, they were bloody good at Whelan's. They just need to go easy on the self-publicising. Especially as this is only their second gig.

madouva

Originally posted by magpie
They just need to go easy on the self-publicising. Especially as this is only their second gig.

Er...why should anyone go easy on it Magpie?
I don't get you.

And I doubt that most of those listed influences above would have gone easy on it. Quite the opposite.

magpie

They need to go easy on this drivel because they should let the music speak for itself... to quote Frank Zappa

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read"

I know it's not exactly pertinent to this instance, but you get my drift. More music, less ****eing on.

polarbelly

heard a song from them last night... very good, it was that kinda 'the' band vibe, the vines, datsuns, et al... very good tho

i gotta agree with magpie though, that press blurb would kinda put me off them, lucky i heard the music and think its good, however for those who havent heard it, could be pushing them away?

magpie

Actually, they could save themselves a lot of writing by just saying "We are the New York Dolls".

Good gig on friday.