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Modey Lemon
At Academy Bar, Birmingham, West Midlands
You think you listen to music with passion and integrity? That may be true to a degree, but The Modey Lemon wear that passion on their sleeves and ingrain it onto your eardrums. Sorry if I sound preachy, but it's hard not to when you consider the following points which were observed at Birmingham Carling Academy:
1: They were introduced on stage by the a very cool fellow, a visual bastard amalgamation of Ali Baba, Bin Laden, and Jazzy B.
2: The Modey Lemon outdo Alec Empire, Motorhead, Slayer, and even* Merzbow* for sheer volume and intensity.
3: When an unapreciative* Icarus Line* fan disagreed with the Modey Lemon's turmultuous noise, he tried to wind up their fans and got punched square in the face. This impact was undoubtedly softer than the impact that was being made to his ears.
4: They sell their own Modey Lemon mirrors.
5: Moogs that sound like guitars.
6: Guitars that sound like Moogs.
7: Songs that sound like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion being fist-fucked by a robot. Fast and Hard.
8: Paul Quattrone's drumming. Ultrafast, ultraheavy. He has the ability to turn a whole audience of cool looking people into dribbling Phil Collins lookalikes (minus the fucking smug grin that Collins possesses). You just can't physically stop yourself airdrumming when this man is making the stage wobble with each furious kickdrum hit.
9: They don't have to wear a uniform like the headline act of the evening. The Modey Lemon don't need a gimmick, they have tunes like 'Preadator, Crows, Enemy', and 'Big Bang', all furious slabs of pure adrenaline.
10: Tinitus. After seeing the Modey Lemon live in 2002, I couldn't hear out of my right ear properly for three days. This time round, it's both ears.
Now, after reading the above points you will hopefully understand why I'm coming across as preachy. If you don't, then get yourselves down to your local record shop in a few weeks time and pick up their new album 'Thunder and Lightning'. Then you'll believe.
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The Modey Lemon
"They were introduced on stage by the a very cool fellow, a visual bastard amalgamation of Ali Baba, Bin Laden, and Jazzy B"
This is their merch guy. He's the best thing about the band, and was being all crrrrrazy in London.
"They don't have to wear a uniform like the headline act of the evening"
Um, the Icarus Line haven't worn their black shirts/red ties combo for years. When they did, be it a gimmick or not, it worked in getting them column inches.
"They sell their own Modey Lemon mirrors"
This is just gay. The fact that they sell two sizes of mirror is even gayer. Modey Lemon are, in fact, another average band doing the loud-loud-LOUD thing. They're as memorable as the night bus to Edgware.
Just my opinion, mind. Good review! -
The Modey Lemon
I saw them at the Roadhouse.
The Icarus Line were disapointing, smacked up and messy.
The Modey Lemon were, well reminded me, of a cross between Amplfier and Nebula. Except not quite as good.
blah, I've much better bands on both counts. -
Re: The Modey Lemon
shit gig wasn't it
i was ill as well
so i missed blood bros the following night
how i cursed that ill fucking bitch (not in a badass hiphop way)
ill girls shouldn't go out and get drunk and look all fit
it's bad for my health -
The Modey Lemon
Maybe the problem was they weren't smacked up ENOUGH.
They did say "we need drugs. If you have them".
I guess it was OUR fault for not buying them drugs.
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The Modey Lemon
They would have sounded better if I was smacked up.
And not using the Roadhouse system.
Saying that the first band 'changed my life' even tho' they couldn't tune a guitar. -
The Modey Lemon
i saw them on that tour, and they are rubbish, really bad. and i got in free. they sound was unimaginative, erm.. too loud, and i reckon they only get gigs because they are american and look cool. or something. -
The Modey Lemon
'Thunder + Lightning' is one of the worst records I've heard in a long time. Just awful. Nothing to recommend it whatsoever.
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