Last week we went to see Modest Mouse at Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall. I love the new album ‘We were dead before the ship even sank’ whereas Lisa loves The Smiths so took this opportunity to check out new Modest Mouser ‘Johnny Marr’. Supporting was ‘Wild Billy Childish and the musicians of the British empire’, so we got there early.
Only Wild Bill didn’t turn up, and no reason for this was announced, turns out we had a different support act instead, The Crimea. I’d like to say how these were, but the sound quality was dire so I decided that any judgement I made would be unfair.
This carried through to Modest Mouse’s set also. It took them an age to come onstage, frustrating the audience to no end. When they did arrive, the sound was appalling. You couldn’t hear Vocalist Isaac Brock over the aural soup that the sound-desk was making out of the two drummers, synths, bass and Johnny Marr’s distinctive guitaring. Oh yes, Johnny Marr. If you’re a sound engineer, and you have a guitar legend in the band you’re working for, you must wash out all audible sound with the guitar hero’s playing. Which is fine for a track, but unfortunately not fine for the entire gig. I say entire gig, we left after about an hour as the sound was doing disservice to the band who were evidently playing their hearts out.
Hopefully next time they tour the sound problems will have been sorted.
Only Wild Bill didn’t turn up, and no reason for this was announced, turns out we had a different support act instead, The Crimea. I’d like to say how these were, but the sound quality was dire so I decided that any judgement I made would be unfair.
This carried through to Modest Mouse’s set also. It took them an age to come onstage, frustrating the audience to no end. When they did arrive, the sound was appalling. You couldn’t hear Vocalist Isaac Brock over the aural soup that the sound-desk was making out of the two drummers, synths, bass and Johnny Marr’s distinctive guitaring. Oh yes, Johnny Marr. If you’re a sound engineer, and you have a guitar legend in the band you’re working for, you must wash out all audible sound with the guitar hero’s playing. Which is fine for a track, but unfortunately not fine for the entire gig. I say entire gig, we left after about an hour as the sound was doing disservice to the band who were evidently playing their hearts out.
Hopefully next time they tour the sound problems will have been sorted.
(PS: Is it me, or is Johnny Marr looking more and more like a short-haired Alice Cooper lately?)
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