Music for your ears

Yesterday I went to a club called Alcazar here in Stockholm to see our former bass player, Colin, perform with his one man bad - wilmacakebread, released under cocohippo. It would be really interesting since I've never heard his stuff before.

He had rigged his equipment on top of a couple of ironing boards accompanied by a few desk lamps; the set looked like as if a little boy had tried to build his own space ship in the kitchen, which set to mood quite well. There was also a small projection film hanging from the roof above his "cockpit", and this was operated from backstage by a friend of Colin's.

Wilmacakebread's gig was fairly short, 5-6 songs, I can't really remember. But hey, there is this trade-off between quantity and quality and wcb went for quality, at least to my opinion. The music was really good. Bass and drums decorated with quirky sounds from xylophones etc. No songs, just Colin clearing his throat every once in a while because of the smoke machine. It sounds a little bit like Sea and Cake have lunch with Tortoise. Or if you know Matt Elliott/Third eye foundation, wilmacakebread sounds similar to that Third Eye, but opposite, instead of darkness and anxiety wilmacakebread plays happy music…

The band that played after wilmacakebread was Surplus People, a three piece band consisting of three girls playing bass, organs, trombone/singing/megaphone and a drum machine. Their music was really great! I couldn't hear the lyrics, but the musicscape was energetic and sometimes aggressive. Inbetween songs the band cheered and made jokes. I've spent this morning looking for a place where I can buy their stuff and I've finally found a few places. Their cd will get it's airtime on my ipod, that is for sure.