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Funky Dung wrote:Some guy did a good review of the Mylo gig on another forum where he commented on the audience being "the kind of people whose expectations and experience mean that they would go wild at this kind of stuff", and how Mylo was "the Lighthouse Family of dance music".
The crowd was pretty mixed on Saturday night but I've got to admit, it did tend to push towards our sort of age group.
I do think that the comment about being the 'Lighthouse Family of dance music' is a little harsh Funny though!
"Gimme the sight to see
another world outside that's full of
all the broken things that I made"
Here's the guy's full review, for anyone interested. I think it's a pretty good one - sums up mostly how I felt when I saw him in Sydney earlier in the year. Not bad or anything, just completely passed me by without making any kind of impact whatsoever.
Mylo @ Brixton Academy on Saturday
"I know a lot of people are going say I only have myself to blame for going to this, but...
...it was very dull.
Not exactly bad. But not particularly good, either.
I suppose I did have a certain level of expectation at this sell-out. I know he's gone fairly mainstream in the past 12 months, but it doesn't seem too long before then, that Myles MacInnes was being hailed as part of the future of dance music.
Victim of his own hype? I think so.
It started with the news that Mylo wouldn't actually be on stage till 12.30.
So, after an amusingly dreadful support band of Depeche Mode wannabes (amusing to the point of hilarity) and a pair of DJs who'd learned how to do the exaggerated EQ thing, but hadn't got around to actually mixing records, the place was packed with an expectant buzz.
12.30 on the dot he comes on. And...well, all the notes seem to be in the right place. Twenty minutes in and I'm kind of wondering when it's actually going to start.
And that was it, for the rest of it. I kept trying to put my finger on what was wrong. It was just about holding together. And sometimes all but losing the synchronicity between the click-track/samples/sequencer and the live drums/guitar/keyboards. The album tracks had been meticulously re-arranged, orchestrated and adapted for the live show with a four-piece band, but some of the extended intros, breakdowns and middle eights were downright tedious.
All around me, people are going wild. But, then I look again - and realise that maybe these are the kind of people whose expectations and experience mean that they would go wild at this kind of stuff. Almost complete abandonment in the foot-tapping and head-nodding departments (Plus quite a few very lagered-up. Very annoying. Scumbags in polo shirts and chinos).
Absolutely no way this justified a 12.30, into-the-night slot; more a 9pm, last train home for cocoa, in a very Dire Straits/Simply Red kind of way.
The Lighthouse Family of dance music."
"People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink."
Everyone I was with and everyone around me had a GREAT time, and that included plenty of young 'uns having a whale of a time.
Obviously he is going to go to town on the 'classics' such as Drop The Pressure and In My Arms but this is what the customer ordered, surely?
Lighthouse Family of dance music - bollox!! I can't see what's changed between the original release of Destroy Rock & Roll and now, only that Mylo has become very popular and 'mainstream'. What the fuck's wrong with that if the music's good?
And everyone knew beforehand that he was due on at 12.30, so that comment is inaccurate and unwarranted as an introduction to the review.
I think I've aleady commented a while ago that when I saw them live aboot a year ago I thought they looked like the first dance music boy band.
Having said that, a good time WAS had by all and the crowd was fairly mixed - some clubbers, some drinkers, some pop music fans. When they played Drop the Pressure the crowd went absolutely beserko. Yes, most of his stuff is commercial, as we all know, but writing stuff like "these are the kind of people whose expectations and experience mean that they would go wild at this kind of stuff" seems to me to be the worst kind of snobbery.
The gig was exactly what I expected and I had a great time.
Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?
Considering Mylo has said that prior to releasing DR'n'R, he made lots of stuff, most of it very "un-commercial", but opted for the more danceable and people-friendly tracks, it's no wonder he's getting mainstream attention.
It's also true that he's called "Drop The Pressure" a ridiculous track. That's a fact.
He smells of cheese, but I guess he's all ironic about it...
(I've come to love DTP, though.)
I bought the album yonks ago now. I must admit I am tiring of it. Its the old over exposure thing for me.... Drop the pressure is indeed a good tune, but its been overplayed everywhere, and I am being haunted by Dr Pressure wherever I go (sorry guys).
I think he is a victim of his own hype. He has no contemporaries at the moment, god knows what sort of "pressure" he's under to deliver a competent second album.
As for his live performances.. when I saw him at Homelands 2 years ago I thought he ripped the place up, but this could have been because he was playing in the strongbow bar and there were only around 200 or so people in there.
I didn't really enjoy seeing him at Kings Cross (whenever and wherever that gig took place). As I've mentioned before, there were loads of piss heads twatting about and they were all too busy shouting how much they all loved each other over the already loud but distorted PA.
All in all I do enjoy his music, I am just a bit tired of it all now.
I don't know you people...why are you here? MEMS MUZAK
I think he's made some great tunes (done some very good remixes), but he's generally very middle-of-the-road, inoffensive, dance music-lite for people who "quite like some dance tunes but nothing too noisy", that they can tap their feet and sing along to.
And I guess now he's on Sony that's the angle they'll push, seeing as it's done so well with the early-30s middle-class couple demographic.
I think he's a good producer though, so he'll probably carry on releasing "underground" club tunes and remixes in between - under a fake name, if need be.
"People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink."
His newer stuff is very MOR-dance but I like it. As has been said, he's very inoffensive and when he hit the scene, it did need a kick up the arse. I'd be happy if he produced some harder electro type stuff. There are hints of it in some of his tunes, so maybe he should surprise us and kick it up a notch.
My one criticism is that he's (been forced to) re-releasing older singles. 'Drop The Pressure' was slated for a re-release when Sony made the deal although he released 'Doctor Pressure' instead but the new single is going to be 'Muscle Cars' which has been out already. This is going to be the last single to be released from 'Destroy Rock & Roll'.
"Gimme the sight to see
another world outside that's full of
all the broken things that I made"
I haven't read the entire thread, and I haven't heard the track... but I just noticed that this track made the radio charts in Norway this week. Congrats, I'm sure you're all very excited.
The Hex
Some people don't get the Transformers. It's simple. They're big robots. And they change into things. And they fight. This is beautiful and mad. If you do not get this, there is something missing in your soul. - Paul O'Brien
It's also now being used as the backing music to the little program promo's on LBC - a speech station! Oh & also it's on the instore P.A. in Asda Burgh Heath.
Let's face it, if I didn't exist - you'd pay someone to have me invented.
Just saw Dr Pressure on the Finnish MTV on a program calle "U wish". It's the first time I've seen it here, but that's probably due to the fact that I very rarely watch MTV at all.
Funny though!
