Setlist
Tour Dates
01/31/14 Quebec City, QC @ Le Cercle
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“Let’s get naked.. but not too much, ‘cause some of my family is here.” Opening words from Montreal band Random Recipe at NYC’s Piano’s Thursday night.
To say their band name accurately describes their music would be just that: accurate. Often difficult to pigeonhole, the band, led by Frannie Holder and Fab with childhood friends Liu-Hong Ha and Vincent Legault, creates a mixture of genres: beat boxing, electronic, rock, hip hop, and more.
One song will have acoustic guitar, the other steel drums. Some songs chill you out like “I Don’t Want to Want You” from their “Shake it! Bake it!” EP, while others make you want to dance with parachute pants like “Sultan” from their recently released album, Kill the Hook. Holder’s voice (when not rapping) is a bit of Feist and a bit of Dracula from the puppet musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and it compliments Fab’s beat boxing, rapping vocals.
Aside from their music, Random Recipe have great showmanship. They dance on stage to their music, make eye contact with the audience (seriously, it makes a difference), and jump around the stage to play different instruments. At one point, Holder goes off stage into the “circle of darkness” as Holder calls it (the unoccupied space right in front of the stage) and carries Fab horizontally across her shoulders to create their own crowd surfing. (see video)
What makes them memorable performers though is the humor and fun they bring in the way they present themselves. The banter in between songs is pretty hilarious, too.
Three-fourths into the show, Holder wonders aloud why no one has bought them shots yet (don’t worry, they received two rounds not long afterwards), which prompts a woman to yell back, “What do you want?”
“Jameson!” Holder responded. “C’mon you should know that. You’re my aunt!”
After an encore with a mash-up of songs like Reel 2 Real’s “I Like to Move It” (which Fab brought a pretty good imitation of the Cookie Monster-like voice in the original) and Destiny’s Child, “Say My Name,” Fab closed the set reminding the crowd that they’re from Montreal.
“We don’t live in igloos, but we like igloos.”
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Random Recipe
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Aside from their music, Random Recipe have great showmanship. They dance on stage to their music, make eye contact with the audience (seriously, it makes a difference), and jump around the stage to play different instruments. At one point, Holder goes off stage into the “circle of darkness” as Holder calls it (the unoccupied space right in front of the stage) and carries Fab horizontally across her shoulders to create their own crowd surfing. (see video)
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Fab
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Three-fourths into the show, Holder wonders aloud why no one has bought them shots yet (don’t worry, they received two rounds not long afterwards), which prompts a woman to yell back, “What do you want?”
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Drinking Jameson
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After an encore with a mash-up of songs like Reel 2 Real’s “I Like to Move It” (which Fab brought a pretty good imitation of the Cookie Monster-like voice in the original) and Destiny’s Child, “Say My Name,” Fab closed the set reminding the crowd that they’re from Montreal.
“We don’t live in igloos, but we like igloos.”
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Random Recipe at Pianos, New York (01/28/2014) |