Gyroscope at Hi Fi Bar and Ballroom

Band: Gyroscope with Young and Restless
Venue: Hi Fi Bar and Ballroom
Date: 17th may 2008
Reviewed By: Lyn Harder
Young and Restless started the night in a blaze of rock and roll. The band seemed to be fully into their set, showering it with all their must. I felt the crowd weren’t as into the band, maybe the main band was all they wanted, of course there were many cheers but didn’t set the crowd alight. There were those few moshing at the front, but needless to say, doesn’t mean they don’t rock. The band has been together since 2005. Karina, ever the rock chick, belted out the tunes, and when she removed her skirt to show us an almost ‘Sandi from grease’ outfit, the boys in the crowd stood up!
Gyroscope started with a bang, four hunky boys on stage and the crowd went nuts. Not my kind of hunky, but judging from some girl’s reactions a few would have taken any member home. The lead singer and guitarist Daniel Sanders and drummer Rob Nassif remind me of boys found on chapel st in pink and white tops and trendy hair do’s, Zoran Trivic looks like a rapper and Brad Campbell is the rock of the group. First song ‘weapon’ got the punters shaking and moshing. Other songs include ‘midnight’ ‘these days’ ‘ok’ 1981’ ‘driving’ ‘safe forever’. Daniel decided to join the crowd for the song ‘safe forever’ and he stayed in the crowd singing for a while. Brad sung great backing vocals. More songs were ‘all in on one’ ‘beware’ and ‘Doctor’ rocked with backing vocals by Brad.
Finished with ‘snakeskin’, which really is a fantastic song. They only played for one hour literally and managed to fit in 17 songs all up! I’m not used to such short gigs and my friend and I thought maybe the kids of today haven’t the energy to listen to a band for longer!!? I admit I am yet to own one of their cd’s so I didn’t know a few songs but overall these guys put on a great show, the crowd loved them. A sold out hi fi bar tells me this band will be around for a while.