
(Review
by Ann Alex).
The members of this band
hail from studies at the renowned Leeds College of Music and they play an
interesting and exciting mixture of neo-prog rock, pop, jazz and free jazz, all
well bound together. The audience was
small, which surprised me as I thought other young musicians would have been
interested.

Besides drumming Katie,
from Canada (Nova Scotia ), did all
the talking, introducing the tunes and even asking the names of the audience
members. The repertoire included
originals and versions of numbers by such names as Bob Marley, Alan Broadbent
and Weather Report. The tune titles were: Fred;
Mactough; Waiting In Vain; Importance Of Being; Old Find; Arpeggiator; Lakeside
Stroll; Young And Fine; 86D; Early Morning View; Stonerhill.
For instance, Early Morning View was about a ride in a
hot air balloon.
So to best describe this
sort of music, I’ve decided a poem would serve!
I should mention that the band wore aprons instead of sporting the more
traditional tee shirts.
It
takes Allsorts
To give us all sorts of
music
Does what it says on the
pinny
Keys sadly soulful, up
and down harmonic scales
Or flying high in the
balloon
Flute fluting, its name
like its sound
Assertive sax lays down
the riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Bass lays down the riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Guitar lays down the
riff
Almost but not quite too
many times
Then –
The drums womanned
royally in purple pinny
Slivers, shimmers of
cymbals
Fall into the snare
Bup bup bup, bam bam bam
False finish to the tune
Audience claps
Falls into the snare
False finish again
Audience claps
True finish
Audience hesitates –
Then claps.
Ann Alex.
Ann Alex.
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