Another Form of Relief

One of the more unfortunate things about mainly getting your music from the internet is that the element of surprise disappears. It’s not often that I’ll download or play a band on Myspace entirely randomly. It’s usually thanks to a recommendation or after hearing a band on another blog or something of that nature. This usually leads to having some rough idea of what to expect before you even listen to the first song. Occasionally there may be a surprise, but it’s not very often. You certainly don’t get the same feeling as hearing a song on the radio and then trying to track down exactly what it is. The one place where it does still seem possible to find something new unexpectedly is at gigs.

We travelled up to London to see Beeches play at the Dublin Castle last week (which I’ll write about in itself soon enough), where they were playing with three other bands that I had never heard of. While things didn’t get off to a great start with the really quite woeful Red! Nice Guy?. Things picked up considerably with Johnny Foreigner though, a fantastic pop punk band from Birmingham with great back and forth male/female vocals. I’d love to write about them in more detail, but the mp3s on their Myspace are pretty awful quality wise, but they are certainly ones to watch for the future.

The headline act though were a band called The Bright Lights. Unfortunately, thanks to early morning working the next day, we had to leave part of the way through their set. In the time I did get to hear them though, I was really impressed by their performance. They opened with the driven ‘Closed On Monday’, which demonstrates the power behind singer Katie’s voice perfectly. There’s nothing all that bold in any of these songs, but the catchy style and delivery should win over anyone not entirely jaded.

MP3 The Bright Lights - Closed On Monday (expired)
MP3 The Bright Lights - Rise And The Fall (expired)
MP3 The Bright Lights - Missing Out (expired)

The Bright Lights: Myspace

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