Band: Juliet and the Licks with support by The Gingers
Venue: Prince of Wales, melbourne
Date: 27th April 2008
Reviewed By:Lyn Harder
Venue: Prince of Wales, melbourne
Date: 27th April 2008
Reviewed By:Lyn Harder
Photographer: Mark Geisel
Many braved a cold night to see Juliet and the licks and from what I’ve heard about their music, we all knew it would be worth venturing out to see.
The Gingers opened the night with their great set of punk, fast paced, school garage rock music. I still find it strange that bands don't put a name on drum kit or somewhere. They are a 4 piece band from Melbourne and the crowd embraced them tonight. A song that stood out for me was ‘I wanna love you but i can't' a catchy doo wop song with groovy chorus.
We all waited in a room filled almost to the max to see Juliet and the Licks, a band who have been around for five years and are making their dint in the rock world. Many punters wore colourful feather head bands mimicking their singer, their hero.
Right on time the band enter, Todd Morse on guitar, Jason Womack on bass, drummer Ed Davis. I was wondering where Juliet was as the crowd was going nuts, and it wasn’t until she slinked up the microphone stand that I saw her and realised why the front of the room was cheering! She started singing 'Inside the cage' and the crowd go even more nuts. She plays to the crowd embracing their hugs. Juliet definitely knows how to work the stage; I’d say her former life as an actor has taught her this. Her jacket is removed after the third song and after lots of head shaking her feather head piece is shaken off and any composure (if there even was any) is gone now.
When 'bull shit king' is played the drummer shows us his impressive drumming skills. Juliet loves to swing her hair around; I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much hair flicking and leg kicking. Then we are given a song for the ladies and Juliet leaps into crowd and sings 'coming around'. Juliet runs off and we're left with bass music thumping through our bodies. Back she comes with costume change, blind folds herself and dancers erotically whilst singing ‘death of a whore' which is a groovy rock song, very theatrical with out all the costumes. Juliet really goes off like a fire cracker. She loves to talk to the crowd. When watching her sing 'Purgatory blues' I find I just can't stop watching her. One person tells me it’s almost like watching an aerobics class! Hmmm…not sure about that! The band puts in a show that is 110% rock. 'This i know' is a romantic song and one which stands out for me as she kisses the crowds hands and cheeks. Awesome guitar lead by Todd for 'hot deal' then the licks do a song for us ‘Aussies’, an ACDC cover of ‘dirty deeds’, Juliet grabs a hat from a punter as it looks like Brian Johnson’s. Backing vocals are fantastic in dirty deeds, they got that grunt going on, a few vocal mishaps but overall a great version.
Always been a dream of Juliet’s to get a band started and she feels amazing. 'Get up' is a song about leaving what she knows to pursue a musical career; this has cheery start to the music. 'So amazing' she sings with the audience, making them sing in sections of the room but this didn’t go for long, most people preferred her to do the singing! A short encore then ‘Pray for Latoya’ which is a song for the band because she can apparently be difficult to work with.
They go with bows and kisses and Juliet tells us it'll be a while till they're back as going to record new album.
Licks fever has come and gone and mesmerised us all and the punters face the brave cold night outside.
The Gingers opened the night with their great set of punk, fast paced, school garage rock music. I still find it strange that bands don't put a name on drum kit or somewhere. They are a 4 piece band from Melbourne and the crowd embraced them tonight. A song that stood out for me was ‘I wanna love you but i can't' a catchy doo wop song with groovy chorus.
We all waited in a room filled almost to the max to see Juliet and the Licks, a band who have been around for five years and are making their dint in the rock world. Many punters wore colourful feather head bands mimicking their singer, their hero.
Right on time the band enter, Todd Morse on guitar, Jason Womack on bass, drummer Ed Davis. I was wondering where Juliet was as the crowd was going nuts, and it wasn’t until she slinked up the microphone stand that I saw her and realised why the front of the room was cheering! She started singing 'Inside the cage' and the crowd go even more nuts. She plays to the crowd embracing their hugs. Juliet definitely knows how to work the stage; I’d say her former life as an actor has taught her this. Her jacket is removed after the third song and after lots of head shaking her feather head piece is shaken off and any composure (if there even was any) is gone now.
When 'bull shit king' is played the drummer shows us his impressive drumming skills. Juliet loves to swing her hair around; I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much hair flicking and leg kicking. Then we are given a song for the ladies and Juliet leaps into crowd and sings 'coming around'. Juliet runs off and we're left with bass music thumping through our bodies. Back she comes with costume change, blind folds herself and dancers erotically whilst singing ‘death of a whore' which is a groovy rock song, very theatrical with out all the costumes. Juliet really goes off like a fire cracker. She loves to talk to the crowd. When watching her sing 'Purgatory blues' I find I just can't stop watching her. One person tells me it’s almost like watching an aerobics class! Hmmm…not sure about that! The band puts in a show that is 110% rock. 'This i know' is a romantic song and one which stands out for me as she kisses the crowds hands and cheeks. Awesome guitar lead by Todd for 'hot deal' then the licks do a song for us ‘Aussies’, an ACDC cover of ‘dirty deeds’, Juliet grabs a hat from a punter as it looks like Brian Johnson’s. Backing vocals are fantastic in dirty deeds, they got that grunt going on, a few vocal mishaps but overall a great version.
Always been a dream of Juliet’s to get a band started and she feels amazing. 'Get up' is a song about leaving what she knows to pursue a musical career; this has cheery start to the music. 'So amazing' she sings with the audience, making them sing in sections of the room but this didn’t go for long, most people preferred her to do the singing! A short encore then ‘Pray for Latoya’ which is a song for the band because she can apparently be difficult to work with.
They go with bows and kisses and Juliet tells us it'll be a while till they're back as going to record new album.
Licks fever has come and gone and mesmerised us all and the punters face the brave cold night outside.
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