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The Music at Homelands
Lineup: The Music
Date: 29/05/2004
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by Andrew Future
There isn’t time to remember anything or sing, only to dance. This is mercurial. The crowd resemble a huge, neon ring flanking the stage like a gaseous wave. The magnetism and dynamic energy protruding from it hails from near Leeds. This is music.

‘The Dance’ always possesses a seismic intensity: the rhythms intertwined with the whiplash guitar loops and frontman Robert Harvey’s witch-like vocals.

This is the main event. This is the only live action rave at Homelands. ‘Take The Long Road and Walk It’ sounds more magnificent than ever. It looks ritualistic. The Music are mere silhouettes pounding in front of the lasers. For once ‘Getaway’ isn’t the best song.

With the belly of a thousand fires and the blissful mind of a million pill-heads, ‘Welcome To The North’ is the best thing we’ve ever heard. It sounds exactly like a The Music song while pissing all over everything in their set.

This is mercurial. The magnetism and dynamic energy is pure festival magic. This is The Music’s finest hour.

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The Music

i fucking love the music

didnt get a chance to go to homelands and im gutted they arent playing anywhere else.

bring on the new album!

The Music

Indeed...they are fucking awesome. And 'Welcome to the North' is just amazing...

The Music

Ooh. And now you've got me salivating for their next album. Not that I wasn't salivating for their first.

Lord, what I'd pay to see them live.

The Music

That's a shame, I hadn't heard anything about this band for a little while. I'd hoped they'd all died really really painfully.

Re: The Music

Yeah admittedly they did over stay their welcome with material from the first album but thats not to say that their stuff isnt pretty good.

Be nice to hear if they find a new direction or write some more good songs.

The Music

I saw them at the anti-facism gig at Liverpool Uni. New songs are sounding really good, and yes, 'Welcome to the north' is fantastic.

The Music

I also saw them at 'Love Music, Hate Racism' in Liverpool. There was plenty of crowd surfing and some proper slam dancing going on up front. 'Welcome to the North' and 'Human' were the highlights but I'd have liked to have seen them play 'Come What May'. I saw them play that at Glastonbury last year and it blew me away.