Beat Live!

This week's Beat Live! played host to two established local bands, Moods and Shamejoannshame. Moods started off with brooding slowpaced indie infected love songs. Low key and moody (sorry I had to use that word) by sound they began the night off warming up the stage slowly with their catchy yet reflective melodies and personal vocals. Next up was Shamejoannshame, now I really loved the sound of these guys. They described their music as being more like movie soundtracks and I thought that was somewhat right, it definately had a visual and narrative quality to it. They sounded pretty emo as well as cinematic to me, bringing to mind planes such as Planes Mistaken for Stars, going from slowly melodic bits to full of riffs and always very tight and different drumming. Shimmering hi paced hi-hat sounds and a lovely tight snare. Keyboards gave a great melodic aspect to their sound, sounding at times very much like an organ. The guitarist swept up stringing everything together with a series of changes from plucking, picking, full on chords, riffs in a series of ear drooling solos. Following closely after as every Friday were the notriously feel good team of DJs, Joe, George and Ginette. They managed to edge the crowd closer and closer to the floor until they came into a frenzy, moving and shaking to those tracks that have become synonymous with this event. Get yourself down every friday, these guys really read and react to the crowd, they know what to do, you just have to show up for a quality time guaranteed every friday night.