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65daysofstatic live
Date: 28/04/2005
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by Mike Diver
Obstacles are only there to be beaten – remember that the next time you’re in a glitch-rock (sorry 65daysofstatic, but we’ve got to call you something) band trapped within unforgiving confines. The sound at The Garage may suit balls-out rockers and snot-nosed punks, but the subtleties lurking inside 65dos’s electronic squall are lost as the surround-sound reverberation threatens to have one’s dinner reappearing all too soon. Still, at least this way you can literally feel the music, and not just in the pit of your belly.

When everything aligns, albeit briefly, the effect is wondrous. The music splashes and slashes your face like shards of ice, transforming every skin cell into the finest porcelain before shattering them into a thousand tiny fragments, each of which bursts into a flare of purest energy, spiralling across your field of vision, pirouetting before a stage housing four skittering silhouettes. You smell burning on the air. It’s the tiny hairs inside your ears. They’ve gone the way your other senses are headed: to a flaming Heaven of bootlegged pop smashes and dangerously volatile beats ‘n’ riffs. The figures lurch slowly, as if on reel-to-reel videotape at start-up, before pummelling the tools of their trade into splintered kindling. The figures know of no genre-specific boundaries to hold them back; we know of no single force in the world that could do likewise.

Of course, when the physical environment conspires to thwart their hold on the senses the effect is pretty far from transcendental – the trademark laptop stutters and hard-drive adrenaline shots sound like crickets drowned by a flood of pneumatic drills. When it’s right, though, it’s so right.

That obstacles remain in their way is natural – you don’t fight your way up from the deepest catacombs of the underground without getting a little dirty – but that so few remain is illustrative of what 65dos have achieved in the last 12 months. Their star is in absolute ascendance, and all anyone else can do now is watch it go nova.

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65daysofstatic

"The music splashes and slashes your face like shards of ice, transforming every skin cell into the finest porcelain before shattering them into a thousand tiny fragments, each of which bursts into a flare of purest energy, spiralling across your field of vision, pirouetting before a stage housing four skittering silhouettes. You smell burning on the air. It’s the tiny hairs inside your ears. They’ve gone the way your other senses are headed: to a flaming Heaven of bootlegged pop smashes and dangerously volatile beats ‘n’ riffs."

Was it quite good, then?

65daysofstatic

the surround-sound reverberation threatens to have one’s dinner reappearing all too soon. Still, at least this way you can literally feel the music, and not just in the pit of your belly.

too fucking right. NO FUN AT ALL with a hangover. urgh. my own fault i suppose...

65daysofstatic

I've seen them three times in the last couple of weeks, at Nottingham, Doncaster and then Derby. They really are one of the best bands about at the minute and i'm already looking forward to their next tour!

I think they'll probably have a bit of a rest after this one though, and possibly record a new LP? Anyway, i've booked my tickets to see them and YMSS supporting Mono in Sheffield in May.

Bring it on!

Woo.

65daysofstatic

if you want a label for them, look no further than indie-dustrial. i've been (cliche alert!) consistently underwhelmed by this band. they seem like the sort of thing i'd lap up, but are reallt sub par postrock with quite good programming underneath them. and less than the sum of their parts.

65daysofstatic

The venue is such a pit. They shone at the ULU, but with the low ceilings and general aroma of dank at the Garage I found it much harder to get into.

Anyone going to High Wycombe tonight, anyway?

Re: 65daysofstatic

I was planning to, I would love to see them again as I think them amazing. But, I am coughing and sneezing loads today-so I don't fancy journeying to another far flung venue. I will just have to wait now, till the Sheffied Cororation gig.

65daysofstatic

65days were absolutely awesome at The Garage. Alright the venue isn't all that but wherever I was positioned the sound was reverbing through my whole body. Truly outstanding band.

65daysofstatic

They were fucking outstanding in Wycombe tonight. I danced like a funky-assed-motherfucker...

(also, union bar prices. hurrah!)

Re: 65daysofstatic

They certainly were a bit special in the Wycombe. I danced also. I am deaf now.

Re: 65daysofstatic

They certainly were a bit special in the Wycombe. I danced also. I am deaf now.

Re: 65daysofstatic

I really wish I'd been able to come. How were Projections?

Re: 65daysofstatic

Projections didn't play - they were replaced by Steve's [Projections frontman] other band, Blood Red Shoes.

Who were rather good, also.

65daysofstatic

This gig was goooooooooooooddddd. I spazzed out a whole lot and probably injured myself.

Review of the Review.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS WANKY SHIT MEAN??!?
ICE SHARDS???PORCELAIN SKIN CELLS??Did this bloke actually listen to the band or spend the whole gig fancying himself as the next voiceover for a Gillette advert?Imagine living with the cunt "Why this toast effervesces with marmite like the light from a black sun in a universe of lost souls.The tea, however, is a lonesome affair, deprived of sugar like an orphan gaping longingly at a picture of its dead parents." Good luck with the writing career.Tosser







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