Tonight I went to the Ninetynine CD launch at the Corner Hotel. It was
excellent. The first support band was Baseball, a side project run by
Ninetynine's drummer, the mad-haired Cameron Potts. It was an interesting
set; with Cameron, another guy and a girl who looked a little like Laura from
Ninetynine (but wasn't), playing an eccentric assortment of instruments,
including an accordion, a small drum, a violin and various shakers,
and performing a number of quirky songs and melodies.
Baseball are certainly a band to look out for.
Then came a punkish band named Flesh Vs. Venom, which apparently features
members from defunct punk-popsters The Vivian Girls. They were OK (one of the
songs they played sounded like Joy Division's
Interzone, albeit with
different lyrics, and in other places they sounded a bit like PIL or someone).
Finally, Ninetynine came on, and put on a characteristically brilliant show,
swapping instruments in between shows, and playing with much energy.
Not surprisingly, Cameron stole the show, flailing about behind the drums
like a man possessed. The audience loved it, and at the end, called for more.
(And Ninetynine obliged, playing one of their older songs (the one with the
bleepy Casiotone drum loop that probably comes from a pencil-case-sized toy
keyboard.)