F- at Clancy's (the review, not the show)

The night started with Rocks and Rhubarb. Lyrics that make you sit up and listen, melodic piano/keyboard trilling (Ed: might need to look that word up: result; fair, but not super precise, it can stay.) 3 from 4 (though usually 5, lead guitar was absent) are chicks - so tonight there was the token male drummer, plus keys, vox/lead and bass. Very cool in a nonchalant sense, their image is belied by lead vox' fiery red tresses. 😁 I sense restraint - would like to see them 'cut sick'. Will see again.

Clean tones were second on the bill. I have seen them before and they rock and they play guitar and it is good. 👍 Quite professional looking, a bit like the Indi band with humans. (Ed (during review): wtf does that mean? Minutes later - ohhh, Figurehead) Could get big, probably should be bigger. Will see again, I need a decent review of this band. The only decent (not great) video of the evening

Clean Tones

Third band were About J. Not the likeliest looking rockers - but they swing that axe like nobody's business so they can look like they want 😁 I've seen About J before, and lead came over and said hello before set. A pity my vids were so crap, would have liked some decent content to give to them. Will see again, so will have to make sure I do a better job next time

Next were Jack Hamilton - getting better and better. Seem to have dropped the 'all black' motif, more the pity, but somehow seem more of a band than before, if that makes sense. The impression i got from the first time I saw them, was more people wearing similar clothes than a unit. There's still a bit of musicians playing songs more than a band, but you can see how they're melding - gonna have to watch this space to see how they develop.

Last set of the evening was Spatula City. Imma go with alt rock. Genre bending, gender defying, Thinking music, though they can rock out a bit when mood takes them. Interesting gimmick in handing out a spatula (coz 'Spatula City' geddit?) at the end of the show. Your 90s-adulted reviewer was thinking, hmm 'an obvious male (regardless of enskirtment) is handing out a kitchen implement as a 'prize' to a woman from the crowd - there's perceptions here that could be entirely different than those you are trying to generate'. Intrigued enough to watch again, but I don't think they are quite my thing - my weird street is around the corner and up a bit from their weird street.