Modular Lab @ the Edinburgh Castle
August 29, 2001
Review by Squid
As hard as it is to believe, we were not always the hip scenesters we are now. There was a dark, evil period of heinous injustice that can only be described as: High School. That pit of hormones and insecurity...we called it home. There was only one thing that served our woeful hearts any solace.
Psychocandy: Shoegazing Ground Zero.
The Jesus and Mary Chain have a place in the heart of many a survived alternateen. So much so that what started as a mere suggestion on the sf_indie list about a JAMC cover band grew into a makeshift collective of blackly clad sneering 20/30 somethings:
Stanley Lam - guitar, large sunglasses
Mark Milic - guitar, seated
Gagan Palrecha - guitar
Steve Smiler - guitar
Chris Stratford - vocals
Jake Stratford - guitar
Kevin Wood - drums, standing
Eliot Van ButtShirt - bass
The intensity surrounding this project and it's single rehearsal made The Crusades look like a trip to CostCo. It tore at their minds and throbbed underneath their highly-buttoned black shirts. Large cans of hairspray began disappearing all over the city. Clearly, no one was fucking around.
Lo, it came to pass that all parties concerned gathered to drink heavily at the Edinburgh Smackden for an evening of fuzz and feedback and hits like Upside Down, You Trip Me Up, Just Like Honey, April Skies and Bleed Me. The spirit of this tribute, however, wasn't about music or fame or waking and finding yourself on SubPop. No, it was based in that most holy tenant of the JAMC faith. Drunken Glaswegian siblings hurling each other into drumkits.
And that sort of love, friends, needs no explanation.
Pseudocandy
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