Cub reporter Mule Hughes forgot his camera but weighs in nevertheless:
With an ailing Super Robertson tending to his ailing family this week, it was left to Max "Sim Special" Arnason to run the Supper Show. And the thing ran like a top, with a healthy crowd of attentive punters, drinks in hand, bums in seats, filling the half of the Railway Club that matters.
Bryce Drohan was up first, singing a set of serious songs in a big Cornell/Vedder/Lanegan-calibre voice. I gathered that these were acoustic arrangements of songs usually performed by his band—no matter, they sounded pretty full-on to me.
Then it was time to put on your black leather for the power-goth big-beat stylings of Simian Special. This set marked the debut of new guitarist Yakir Biton, who's definitely a keeper. He had a really good sense of when and what to play. The hits, they were plentiful: "Freaky Release," "Solid Hole" (raging!), a U2 or maybe a Coldplay cover (I don't know from popular music anymore), and a concluding dip into the communal song well for "Hey Rock Took the Bait." Despite being justifiably cautious about their volume ('tis bad form to rock too loudly at the Supper Show), they played a belting set, with Sim wailing away like Ian Gillan at times. If that sorta thing doesn't pull your pork, then you are dead to me.
2 comments:
You can always count on Sim Special!
That cover tune was "Clocks" by Coldplay, BTW.
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