!!! & Temper Trap & Passion Pit
Had two back-to-back school night gigs this week. The first was !!! with support from The Temper Trap (found that out a couple of hours before). After a 2 and a half train delay, the end of Temper Trap’s set was better than expected. I’d never heard them before and had pretty low expectations. The highlight was receiving a bluetooth message from them while they were on stage, it was one of their songs. !!! were the opposite; high expectations and little fulfilment. The set was over 80% unreleased material (with nothing from Louden Up Now) and the musicianship was just just….bleh. It’s great when bands progress and move on, but sorry, !!!, I don’t love you as much any more. Plus Nic Offer has cut his hair. Bad move.
The Passion Pit gig was cheap and in a super fun maze-of-a-building (Truman Breweries). I was only interested in their EP, think they played 3 songs from it, that was lots of fun, plus another I enjoyed. The rest was a bit meh. They sound much better on record, but that’s a fairly harsh judgement.
