Night Two - The Roadhouse - 27th January 2008 - Robots In Disguise & Daggers
Well, long overdue is this writeup, but I've been playing sickboy for a couple of weeks, and only now feel desperate enough to write further.
The second night of my five night spectacular encompassed a couple of interesting bands in the form of Robots in Disguise (R.I.D.) and Daggers, their rather talented support group. Being in the Roadhouse was a pleasant trip back to the past, a past of mine that has enjoyed seeing bands from The Von Bonies to The Magic Numbers in that tiny little black room. It was a Monday night however, and an early start (7:30 for the first warm-up act and 8pm for Daggers, with R.I.D. taking the stage at rougly 8:50 till 10:15).
Daggers kicked off the night for me (I must confess, I chain-smoked outside during the first act!) and I was pleasently suprised to see a very confident and atmospheric band in play here. Their energy was quite intense, and they took no time in galvanising an already keen crowd into swooning support for a band whose lead singer resembled a medling of that bloke from The Bravery and a little bit of Bowie stardust sprinklings upon him. But the star of Daggers was easily the lovely keyboard player/backing vocalist - Sarah, a very sweet musician with an etheral voice and manner upon the stage, and the charming manners of a lady off-stage, happy to talk to people and share a cigarette. I see a living for these people if they keep doing what they're doing. Fame is a pointless promise to estow upon any band trying to make it in this notoriously fickle music scene of ours, where bullshit ascends and talent is left to whither on the vine all too often. Good luck Daggers - here's hoping you'll be staring at me just like that some time again, very soon.
Robots In Disguise are all they're cracked up to be. Again, energetic would be an apt phrase for them, passionate, talented too. They attract a very young crowd of teenage fans who are sincere in their support and that support isn't misplaced if you're a fan of electronically influenced indie-music, which thankfully I am. I couldn't help but be impressed with a range of uplifting songs that forced you to move with the beat regardless of whether or not you'd spent all day at work!
How far either band will get is anyone's guess, but fingers crossed, at some point soon I hope they'll be playing venues like M/cr Academy 2 and 3. They both appear to have enough in their tanks to take them that far at least.
