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Broods Dates
April 16 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA*
April 18 Irving Plaza New York, NY* April 19 Asbury Lanes Asbury Park, NJ* April 20 Fillmore Washington, DC* May 14 Christchurch Town Hall Auditorium Christchurch, NZ May 16 Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall Auckland, NZ May 21 Forum Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia May 22 Thebarton Theatre Adelaide, SA, Australia May 25 Big Pineapple Music Festival Woombye, QLD, Australia May 28 Enmore Theatre Newtown, NSW, Australia May 30 Eatons Hill Hotel & Function Centre Brisbane, QLD, Australia June 01 Metropolis Fremantle, WA, Australia (*= Bad Sounds opening) Read More
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“It’s Ewan’s birthday today...so we’re all wearing his teeth!”
The occasion was another in the series of local Go Shows- club concerts featuring breaking artists and sponsored by local radio station GO96.3, this outing featuring brother/sister-led Broods and two brother-led Bad Sounds.
The opening band’s lead singer was celebrating his birthday; so the headliners, in tribute, decided to all wear the same Bad Sounds t-shirt that featured a closeup of the singer’s smiling mouth on the front.
Bath, UK-raised, Bristol-based five-piece Bad Sounds (Ewan Merrett-keys/vocals; Callum Merrett- vocals/samples; Charlie Pitt -bass; Sam Hunt-guitar; Olivia Dimery- drums) is bad in the way that people would use the term in the 70’s- as in they’re baaaad! The buzzing band has already made waves overseas, playing most major European and UK festivals in support of last summer’s debut full-length, Get Better (Insanity Records) and has North America in their sights next.
“This is our first time here, you all seem lovely”, they said early into their thirty-minute set filled with a cacophony of sounds- disco/funk beats against found sound samples (a la Beck), and verse influenced by early hip-hop MCs like that of De La Soul.
“Thank you for coming to my birthday party...it’s a bit rude because I didn’t invite any of you!” Ewan joked before ‘Meat on my Bones’, and their song ‘Milk It’ could only start with the lyric, “Holy cow!”.
“This is out first time in America, we feel a bit out of our depth” Calum admitted, “this is a song about the sh*t town we’re from” he said, before going into their mixtape-only song, ‘Hot Head Chippenham’. With energy high, Ewan and band departed the stage with many in the crowd singing Happy Birthday as they left.
Consider the monster fed--
New Zealand sibling duo Georgia and Caleb Nott lead Broods, an indie-electropop band that has gradually built its steady and loyal audience over the six years and three albums since the band’s formal founding in 2013. Their latest, Don’t Feed the Pop Monster (Neon Gold/Atlantic Records) was released in February, and is perhaps the group’s least dark and most commercially accessible work to date.
The band started their eighty-two minute with the new album’s opening track. ‘Sucker’, set against dramatic lighting and Georgia smartly dressed in a leather jacket and red cowboy hat admitting in song she is “a sucker for everything, but I'll always go back to the simple things, my Stevie and Sting”. Following was the new ‘To Belong’ then ‘Eyes a Mess’, a 2018 single destined for the new record, but left off in the end.
The overall set’s flow rewarded the patient, with the band gradually building energy as singer Nott’s voice evolved from soft and breathy, to soaring with range, with the double shot of 2014’s ‘L.A.F’ and 2016’s ‘Free’ taking things to new heights. Broods is obviously proud of the new album, playing all of its twelve tracks, while peppering in several older favorites.
‘Hospitalized’ the third and most recent single from the album, got the crowd dancing along with its quick beats, and the band didn’t stop to catch their breath before seguing into the new ‘Old Dog’.
‘Everything Goes (Wow)’ is about accepting and making peace with the limited morality we all have, and the set-ending anthem ‘Peach’ that brought everyone’s hands in the air, shook off any previous dark-pop reputations of the band with Nott singing “I’m high and I’m low, no control, but everything’s looking peach now” as she bounded from one end of the stage to the other.
The band was coaxed back by the loud cheers and screams for a one-song encore of 2016’s ‘Couldn’t Believe’ with Nott singing “let’s give in to this” which most in the crowd did, in dance, song, and clapping along with little abandon.
Broods may have all been wearing t-shirts with matching teeth, but it was the entire crowd that was smiling back, following.
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