April 04, 2008
The Gay Blades!!
A NY2LON Live Review...Spinner from N6th
A little Iggy and the Stooges, a little... Dane Cooke, actually. Clark Westfield, lead singer of this 2-man outfit, could absolutely be a talk show host or a standup comic - that is, if he weren't such a fucking good musician. His personality is as amped as his music. He kept the audience (i.e. me) throughly entertained, like when he goes to the people in the front row, "We're so close! It's like it's just us!" Or when he called out some dude in the audience, "You're not really on your Blackberry during the clappy hand part are you??" He threw love to the concert organizers, saying, "We'd like to thank Deli Magazine for voting us the 28th best band of 2007... 28 is where it's at. Number 29? Fuck that. FUCK that. That's white rabbit shit."
Curious about the other guy in the band? Drummer Puppy Mills aka The Snitch, like, could've been in The Stooges. His propulsive beats totally held their own with Westfield's wildly manic persona. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed watching a drummer as much as I did tonight. He just made it look so fun and easy. And as a failed drummer, I happen to know that alot of the stuff he was doing wasn't that easy.
The Gay Blades are just really fucking FUN to watch. That's basically all I can say. What a fucking blast. I want to get back in line and go again!
Epilogue: At some point during the set, I heard someone say "They're like the White Stripes but with a sense of humor!" which at the time I thought was a lazy and very lame comparison. But I know what she meant, which is why I mention it now.
Visit the Gay Blades at their Myspace
Posted by ny2lon at April 4, 2008 03:49 PM
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