Band: The Cinematic Orchestra
Venue: Palais Theatre
Date: 20th January 2009
Reviewed By: Espylyn
Tonight I witnessed the sound that is Cinematic Orchestra. The crowd tonight were fully pumped to witness this band, and a nearly sold out Palais theatre tells me this is a band worth seeing.
A combination of jazz and electronic fusion mixed with lush vocals of the spine tingling variety. The band formed in 1999 and it was created by Jason Swinscoe. On vocals tonight we are graced with the presence of the magnificent voice of Heidi Vogel and Reverend Grey. Heidi is truly show stopping – strong vocals and a haunting powerful voice - I could see why she received the most claps from the audience. I could not help but watch her and wish I could sing that way!
Hailing from the UK the band consists of Luke Flowers on drums, Tom Chant on saxophone, Nick Ramm on piano, Stuart McCallum on guitar and Phil France on double bass. Jason Swinscoe plays the turntable like the professional he is, using the singers vocals by recording the live music, then playing it back as backing vocals, one had to look around and see where the backing singers had come from, the sound was awesome. Jason spins the turntable whilst improvising throughout the performance. He also received a strong reaction from the crowd.
Jason talks to the audience a fair bit throughout the show and manages a laugh when his hard drive fails him. It thankfully doesn’t take too long for the show to go on and the disruption is soon forgotten.
I overheard a few people saying it was about time this band toured and I have no doubt they were not disappointed tonight. I had never heard of this band so seeing them was a great experience. Check them out, you won’t regret it.
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there was no patrick carpenter.. the fella who was talking and on the mac and samples was jason swinscoe.. the female vocalist was heidi vogel and the acoustic guitarist/vocalist was reverend grey
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