The Herms / My
Life is on the Line
Hemlock
Tavern
March 13, 2004
Review by Squid
The joint was packed for My Life On The Line. Packed! Though initially there were
quite a few chatters at the back...Hey, a party's a party, right? Luckily,
things settled down just in time for us to appreciated the every second of
cello, violin, and vocal. MLIOTL is simply Beautiful stuff, with reflective
melodies that can pop with crashing guitar at just the right moments. Squid
thought of a cross between The Ladybug Transistor and Thee More Shallows.
Grab one of their EPs, coz it's free!
So Beth Lisick alluded to the fact that more folks should've
been paying attention to The
Herms at the Noise Pop Kickoff Party. We heartily agreed. Squid and Daz
worked themselves into a frothy frenzy trying to build comparison for folk
who ain't seen them: we started with Mark E. Smith vocals and Bauhausy
playing. Then any reasonable comparisons were blown to hell coz bass player
was just fueling the whole deal with some serious Gang of Four-esque schwinging.
PiF's Scottish Special Correspondent Graham Mitchell nailed it when he
proclaimed, "they're wonderful. I always wanted Josef K to reform, but now
they don't have to. Hurrah!"
Suffice it to say Ms. Lisick would've been pleased with the full house of
pogoing misfits, Squid and Daz included. If you missed them again
last night, you also missed your chance to boogie with Ajax. He was a charmer
on the dance floor, he is. Word to Ruzsx, and Virgil better have gotten good photos, coz he was more
sober than the rest of us!
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