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Gelbison + No Through Road Band Jive, Fri 24 June To a sparse, yet warm and welcoming crowd, local lads No Through Road hit off the nights proceedings. I couldn't take the smile off my face for the entirety of their set. Front man Matt Banham is hilariously charismatic - a born entertainer. No Through Road churned through their rock at a great pace: if I wasn't laughing with Banham at missing the high notes in the first few songs, I was enjoyably engaged by his deadpan yet satirical delivery his intelligent lyrics. They're a crazy fun group that make me want to get off my butt, learn an instrument and get me a band too. Edo and Nadav Kahn left their band mates behind for this one. They opened their set with an unplugged acoustic number, coming down from the upstairs balcony. Their sincerity, gentleness and accuracy in their harmonies was definitely a contrast from the rascals they followed: but the Kahn brothers were in just as playful a mood. Indeed, Edo broke into two-line renditions of Stairway to Heaven and Imagine during Be Broken Be Whole after taking requests to see if he could fit any song into its chord progression. Introducing it as one of the most spiritual songs they were to play: perhaps we'd heard or sung it in church or mosque, the Home And Away theme song proved a treat... of sorts. However, this wasn't a joke set: the beautiful and quiet folk songs that Gelbison played, either unplugged, or with the synthesiser playing an enchanting repetition of notes, were beautifully moving. The audience was as receptive as you could have hoped for too - boisterous and jolly throughout, yet perhaps as touched as myself during the really quiet stuff, in which times only the dull hum of the air-conditioner made any sound to compete with Gelbison. Not playing a single song from debut album '1704', and including various unknown songs to compliment a thorough rendition of 'See The World', Gelbison proved that they don't have to rely on their old singles. Not that they needed to prove anything to me: if you weren't there, you really missed out.  |
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