In the back sit a keyboard player and a drummer. Itâ??s a rather stripped-down stage set up for a band usually identified for taking enormous choirs and walls of sound with them on the road, and the sparseness functions. Sometimes, as they say, less is much more.
Sadly nevertheless, less is not far more for the Commodore Ballroom, which tonight is only half-filled with the devout and a crowd far too earplugs young to bear in mind the bandâ??s crowning, 90s glories Lazer Guided Melodies, Pure Phase and Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. Itâ??s a Saturday evening and while droney minor-chord noiseniks Mogwai drew a complete house the weekend earlier, these essential darlings are seeking at the glass half empty.
Jason Pierce and Incredible Grace
Or is it half full? Definitely, Jason wanders on stage uncharacteristically smiling and clapping at the crowd. earplugs Even the youngsters in the front look content material hearing tracks from Amazing Grace (like the titular set opener which revs from gentle to full throttle into â??You Lie You Cheatâ? from the bandâ??s most recent, Songs in A&E). Itâ??s not the very best Spiritualized disc by a lengthy shot, but lets face it, newer fansâ?? memories have a shorter shelf-life.
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