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OPPOSITION
T - Buffalo
Bar: 12th August 2006
review
"Adrian
R Teenbeat's
exercise in the dark and
grotesque.
Teenbeat
now sports a rough-beard
to accompany his rambling
monologue of drones,
moans, growls and rants.
He delivers his sermon in
darkness as attention is
drawn to film and
slideshow images, strange
adventures in a Yorkshire
landscape with unlikely
captions and placards -
'Dracula lands at
Whitby'. A mature
fatherly gentleman
appears with the label
'FUCK'. An elderly woman
carries the sign
'Everyone enjoys sexual
intercourse'.
Music is driven by synth
beats, harsh and
rattling, with
mini-keyboard's bleeps,
slices and squiggles.
Guitar rasps along with
bass hooks that sprint,
pulse and grunt. This
experience is not
intended to be easy on
the ear but it has a
compelling intensity.
The
Beale
are reliably
disconcerting. It's
almost as if you were
watching an early Fall
show with guest vocals by
a creature built from Shane
McGowan,
Frank
Sidebottom
and The
Rebel (Country
Teasers).
Remember the
meths-drinking tramp that
used to collect pennies
behind Marks &
Spencer's for his grunts
and squealing
mouth-organ? Now he's in
a rock band." -
RF |
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