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Yeah, I know, I got the bad habit
to just ignore sometimes supportbands, and you surely have realised
this is the past. But there is a certain intention behind it, because
many of them are not even worth to mention because of a lack of
quality. But if one of these exceptions actually seems to have a huge
potential, then I will loose a word about them, no problem. And they
are really good, those boys from northern ireland with an average age
of aprox. 25 years old, existing as a band for already 6 years. And
their first record comes out in Germany just two days after this gig
here tonight. Thanks to this album, who I received earlier for
promotional work, I've got aware about "The Answer", and I
decided to check 'em out live as well.
Result: it is worth it indeed.Visually the band rather reminds me on young behaved students except the singer, who rather looks like a delayed relict of the flower power era. But as it's said, oppositions are drawn to each other, like it is here between the visual aspect and the sound. Jesus wept, this lot here are excellent. No, I don't overdo it. It is true. And I ask myself where have they been hiding themselves 'till now. One thing is for sure, 'The Answer' belong in the same cathegory like the australien group 'Wolfmother', - the next generation of 70s retrorock bands.
A slight touch of Led Zeppelin
is laid above the melodies, same like the movements of the singer.
It's not that complex and difficult like their musical
But however, the tunes leads the music, and is absolutely right, apart from the usual venue acoustic problems. It's Stig beeing the focus on stage and the mainpart of the show sweating like a waterfall through the latex. He exchanges his intrument to another one, which is stuck into a cruise missiles costume. In the past this thing even used to fire some pyros from it's back. But that's not happening anymore of whatsoever reasons. Stig gets rid of his shirt, and some pairs of girlies eyes start to sparkle at such a lot of masculine sight, without chesthair and no gramm bodyfat. Okay, I have to mention this out of a female point of view. But while Stig acts as the king of the stage, Jacob Binzer, Jesper's younger brother, is the tower on the other side of the stage, with his cool eyeglimpse and looking rather innocent (he is not, I can asure you :-))) But he is an excellent guitarist, a very good one indeed. He doesn't need to be a frontman or show too much obvious selfconfidence. He is, like I mentioned before, just acting very cool and relaxed...
New album, - yes of course.... it wants to be promoted, though it's not that new anymore. ‚Scare Yourself’ came out quite a while ago. Meanwhile there is a same titled DVD out filmed at last years Roskilde Festival and indoors in Copenhagen. But it's the classic tunes, like 'Sleeping My Day Away', of the best D.A.D. album ‚No Fuel Left For The Pilgrim’ ever in my opinion, which make the show complete. One of my favorite tunes 'Evil Twin' has made it on the setlist as well. The rest you can read on the setlist below. Jesper presents us his german knowledge consisting only of the word München and not much more. If I'd get an Euro for each time he is saying this word, I could easily pay for a vacation on Hawaii. . And Jesper gets an entry in the guinnessbook of records.
Twice D.A.D. has to come back
for one more song. But not for a third time like in Stuttgart
unfortunately. However, it is a very decent performance and 'The
Answer' still has got to work on themselves a bit to reach this level.
But no surprise, because of many years of experience and development
D.A.D. has got compared to the Youngsters. But I'm dead sure, that, if
the Answer keep themselves alive in today's musicbiz, then they will
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