Lastwind (was Re: Northampton gig)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 25/10/2006 11:52, Wright, Mike wrote:
> I got there at 8:25 and managed to see 15 mins of Lastwind, was was
> good. It was Paul Hayles on 2 keyboards, and backing tapes I gues, with
> a very fine guitarist doing blanga crossed with the odd wailing bit.
> Brock meets hillage. Very tasty amd I would like to buy some of their
> stuff. I guess the website http://www.lastwindmusic.com/ is not
> representative of this gig, as it is more soundtrack stuff, but if they
> were to record what they are doing live I would happily pay for it.

Lastwind were, indeed, pretty good.  The first track just went 
thump-thump-thump-thump with wubbly noises, and I thought "Oh dear", but 
then things brightened up considerably.  I quite enjoyed the second 
song, "Autoroute", which crunched very nicely, and the sometimes more 
laid back "Paris-Marseilles".  The did "Slots" and "Monster Trucks", 
too, which are on the myspace page.

The presence of the guitarist (a guy known as OBNY, apparently) was 
definitely a plus as he added a great deal of organic, spontaneous feel 
(which would have been difficult to achieve with just Paul standing 
behind the keyboards).  I think they would likewise benefit a lot from 
the addition of a live drummer and/or percussionist -- I know that's 
more ways to split the money, but it would add a lot to the live 
performace, IMO.  (They could probably carry on getting away without a 
bassist more easily, I think.)

All in all, good stuff!  It will be interesting to see how Paul carries 
forward.

Cheers,
Carl

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