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Lemon Jelly this weekend
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23-02-2005 8:09pm#1
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Review from The Times (UK). Captures a good bit but as he says himself, some of it defies description
The Times
Lemon Jelly
Nick Kelly at the Ambassador, Dublin
IS IT a good thing when a band can so divide the critics? Lemon Jelly have been championed as left-field dance innovators perfectly in sync with these postmillennial times but elsewhere they’ve been derided as smoke-and-mirrors stylists deficient in substance.
A sign that the duo of Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen were doing something right came when Lost Horizons, their 2002 psychedelic chillout opus, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Another was when John Cale, the avant-garde veteran who has always kept his ear to the (under)ground, drafted in Franglen to co-produce his last solo album.
Now, for the follow-up to Lost Horizons, Deakin and Franglen have produced a genre-twisting collection of sample-heavy tunes that borrow from four decades of music — hence the title ’64-’95. But whatever their artistry in the studio, how would the dance duo go about the notoriously tricky business of putting on a stage show that did not make the audience wish they had gone to a club instead? Well, they pulled it off spectacularly with a dazzling blend of sound and vision. For a start, they don’t just stand like statues behind their keyboards all night: they dash around the stage like excited kids let loose in a toy shop, grabbing an acoustic guitar here, an electric cello there, before having a go on the congas or getting in a bit of scratching on the turntable. They even take pictures of the audience with a digital camera — nicely breaking down that fabled glass wall.
The huge banks of rhythmically flashing lights also complemented the surreal, trippy animation projected above them. Visuals of a blinking butterfly with a human face floating amid fluorescent fish almost defied description but they went hand-in-glove with the sensuous, multilayered grooves that ranged from the cute whimsy of Nice Weather for Ducks to the plangent guitar surge of The Shouty Track.
The slushy sentimentality of I Wanna Stay With You, Gallagher & Lyle’s Seventies soft-rock hit, is reconstituted as a chillout anthem and its popularity with the crowd here suggests that Lemon Jelly may have a big chart hit on their hands.
In 2005 this is as good as live dance music gets. The tour continues at the Manchester Academy tomorrow; the Sheffield Octagon on March 3; the Cambridge Corn Exchange on March 4; the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on March 5; the Brighton Dome on March 7; the Birmingham Academy on March 8; the Bristol Academy on March 9; Brixton Academy, London, on March 11; and the London Forum on March 12.0 -
clairey wrote:the visuals r deadly, too hard to explain tho!! next time they play youll have to go to find out for yourself
Ill be seeing them on the 13th May at the trinity ball! I cant freakin' wait That review sounds very much like Massive attacks visual effects, Which blew me away at Oxegen last year!! God damm Im looking forward to Seeing them!
Sean.0
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