Venue: The Ding Dong Lounge
Date: 2nd November 2007
Reviewed By: Lyn. Photograph by Mark Geisel.
We entered the Ding Dong rather late in the night to find many punters already grooving to the second support act (unfortunately missed the first).
After getting ourselves a beer, we headed up to get a better view of this band that seems to be popular with the crowd and even I found myself grooving away to this electronic, rock beat. I didn’t get a chance to read the play list and the band didn’t have their name anywhere that I could see - what is it with bands that can’t even put a name on the drum kit, some sort of paper, or texta on a tee shirt! Somewhere, anywhere, argh!!!?
I couldn’t understand what the singer was saying when he did mention their name either… so anyway, after they finished I went to the merchandise stand and asked who they were, bought the cd and even though it took a few listens to enjoy it as much as the gig, I feel they’ve nailed their music, which is hard electronic rock, live! Their name is ‘Many Machines on Nine’ - MM9 - hailing from Sydney .
I enjoyed the singer’s exuberance up front, mixing with the crowd very well, fully pumping and grinding and overall they are a talented display of musicians. The grind of the bass riff went through the audience; sometimes I thought they had a similar sound underneath to Korn. Check them out!
Zeke and co. came out in full force, Zeke claiming the stage as his, Zane on drums we were told is a ‘buddhist monk with the funk’! Pete, the guitarist strutted his stuff in the middle of the stage entertaining the crowd, and Nick played with amazing grooves as per usual, with his bass guitar.
Visits to the crowd from Zeke, treats of about 4 new songs, political banter but no glitter ball hat, this was Mammal tonight!
One punter tried to get the crowd singing ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ whilst Zeke was talking but Zeke wasn’t having a bar of that and quickly quietened the guy up.
A truly energetic gig and perhaps my fave Mammal gig this year. And yes Zeke, we hope you enjoyed the chicken!
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