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Yule, Dear Times Waste, Onanon and Anna Mac - ReFuel, 15/5/09

07 June, 2009
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After seeing a teenager followed by two 20-somethings both perform relatively low-key sets it was slightly surreal to witness a group of 30 or 40-somethings casually get onstage and play with such power and (youthful) enthusiasm as [Onanon] did. But from my memory of the last [Onanon] gig I went to, this is what they do. Playing a ten song set, [Onanon] blew me away with their noisy yet catchy Pixiesesque pop that was at all times really fun and it was only during their set when the small crowd came within a five metre radius of the stage and finally got the chance to dance. It’s hard to single out any one aspect of the set that stood out, but lead guy Glen’s just the right level of abrasive vocals and the guitar riff in “Sparkle” made me want to direct a really arty surf/skate video with that as the soundtrack, while the highlight of the whole night for me had to be when lead guitarist Don started manically squeezing/strangling his guitar making an awesome screechy noise come out which actually fitted well within the song.

Last to play was [Yule], once based in Dunedin but now residing in Auckland he’s a solo artist plus band in the sense that he writes all the music but plays with a backing band live. Yule claims that although his songs are all quite different “they all get along”, I disagree. I would even go as far as to say certain sections of his songs didn’t like each other that much. Don’t get me wrong, there were some interesting things going on in parts and I really like it when an artist takes influence from many different genres, but I got pretty tired of the start a song in one genre and then break into a section influenced by a different genre trick. It just didn’t work that often and by the fifth or sixth song it no longer came as a surprise it was just tiring. They were very tight as a band but just because you can jump from dub to rock to electro to funk etc doesn’t mean you should. Perhaps my lack of patience stemmed from the fact that I’d already seen the headline act an hour earlier and that followed by a brilliant set from [Onanon] meant that I was never going to be that impressed by Yule. However as the crowd had shrunken to less than half it’s size by the fourth or fifth song I don’t think I was the only person who felt this way.

Overall this was a strange gig because, to be fair, these bands don’t really have much in common and the order they played in was just wack. In saying this, while I wasn’t that into [Anna Mac] or [Yule] I wouldn’t say they were “bad”, just not in the same league as Dear Times Waste and [Onanon].


By David Bell


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