Original Highlights

The secret lies in the pure strength of the songs and the careful, well rehearsed arrangements. Accents are tight and without spare or untidy notes. They did two one-hour sets of largely original songs with a few covers (I'm a Believer, Monkees; Shake Some Action Flamin' Groovies) which were really well received,'and deservedly so. Highlights for me were the band's original numbers (Now, Ritz, New Identity and White Girl). The only faults I could mention about this whole show were sound problems. An excellent Cerwin-Vega pa didn't mean excellent sound all the tim sadly. However, the atmosphere generated more (han made up for this imperfection.

I had this image in my mind of a band seen a lot at Willy's Wine Cellar last winter a tall wiry guy with curls on top, whirling his limbs in front of a blazing wall of grunty pop-rock - the illusion remains, is alive and well and going to Australia. Look out Split Enz!

Clarke Gregor