'Rocklouder' Live review...
Check it out. Don't kow where this crept up from but Mr. Tolley, if you're ever at another gig, drinks are on us. So to anyone else reading this, you want that kinda treatment from us, give a good review. Simple eh?
VENUE: GREY HORSE
DATE: 5-OCT/06
RATING: ****
From the outside the Grey Horse doesn’t look like much and the feeling is mutual upon entering. It's a standard pub with a few student types sporadically sitting around the room and a bored bar maid staring into space waiting for the next customer.
One step through a set of double doors, however, and you are transported to what seems like a million miles away from the dingy Grey Horse. The next room is small with candle lit tables positioned round a small stage in the far corner and there is an air of anticipation for what will be Stasi's final performance before entering the studio to record there first mini-album.
The room is busy but not packed and the loud murmuring of the punters quickly fades as three young men enter the stage and take their positions. A sound scape fills the room and from that moment no one takes their eyes off the stage for the next forty minutes.
They open with the fantastic ‘Cat Cage’, just one of two old tracks they play tonight, a sign perhaps of where Stasi's priorities lie. It’s a perfect start as the three piece burst with energy, making enough noise to cause a small earthquake. Nothing short of draw dropping.
Stasi then proceed to run through four new songs which nearly take the roof of the place, a fair achievement considering much of the audience have not heard the material. ‘How The West Won Its Suicide’ (working title) is particularly impressive on first listen. A progressive arrangement of sounds that drifts around the room taking the quiet/loud/quiet/loud song formula to another level. It’s a piece of music that will soon kill off the Muse comparisons this band have always been tagged with.
Another highlight is in the form of a song that “out dates the band”. Frontman Amit feels the band are “being lazy” for including it on the new album. However it’s a fantastic slice of Nirvana meets Winnebago Deal rock and roll and a sign that Stasi are not willing to type cast themselves as just a prog rock band.
Proceedings come to an end with space rock instrumental ‘That’s The Future’. The other old song they play tonight and an appropriate end to a fantastic performance. It packs in all of Stasi’s best traits – loud, melodic and almost overwhelmingly ambitious.
Stasi have worked hard to get to this far, but they're at a stage now where their efforts may well be widely recognised. No doubt there’s more hard work to come but what makes this band so satisfying to watch and listen to is the knowledge that they are determined to take this band as far as it can go. On the bases of tonight’s performance that could be a very long way indeed.
Sam Tolley
Link - http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/1089.html
VENUE: GREY HORSE
DATE: 5-OCT/06
RATING: ****
From the outside the Grey Horse doesn’t look like much and the feeling is mutual upon entering. It's a standard pub with a few student types sporadically sitting around the room and a bored bar maid staring into space waiting for the next customer.
One step through a set of double doors, however, and you are transported to what seems like a million miles away from the dingy Grey Horse. The next room is small with candle lit tables positioned round a small stage in the far corner and there is an air of anticipation for what will be Stasi's final performance before entering the studio to record there first mini-album.
The room is busy but not packed and the loud murmuring of the punters quickly fades as three young men enter the stage and take their positions. A sound scape fills the room and from that moment no one takes their eyes off the stage for the next forty minutes.
They open with the fantastic ‘Cat Cage’, just one of two old tracks they play tonight, a sign perhaps of where Stasi's priorities lie. It’s a perfect start as the three piece burst with energy, making enough noise to cause a small earthquake. Nothing short of draw dropping.
Stasi then proceed to run through four new songs which nearly take the roof of the place, a fair achievement considering much of the audience have not heard the material. ‘How The West Won Its Suicide’ (working title) is particularly impressive on first listen. A progressive arrangement of sounds that drifts around the room taking the quiet/loud/quiet/loud song formula to another level. It’s a piece of music that will soon kill off the Muse comparisons this band have always been tagged with.
Another highlight is in the form of a song that “out dates the band”. Frontman Amit feels the band are “being lazy” for including it on the new album. However it’s a fantastic slice of Nirvana meets Winnebago Deal rock and roll and a sign that Stasi are not willing to type cast themselves as just a prog rock band.
Proceedings come to an end with space rock instrumental ‘That’s The Future’. The other old song they play tonight and an appropriate end to a fantastic performance. It packs in all of Stasi’s best traits – loud, melodic and almost overwhelmingly ambitious.
Stasi have worked hard to get to this far, but they're at a stage now where their efforts may well be widely recognised. No doubt there’s more hard work to come but what makes this band so satisfying to watch and listen to is the knowledge that they are determined to take this band as far as it can go. On the bases of tonight’s performance that could be a very long way indeed.
Sam Tolley
Link - http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/1089.html
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