The Beards @ The Annandale Hotel 19/8/2011
August 26th 2011 12:03
The first thing that was noticed was despite this being The Beards ‘100 Beards’ tour, there nearly wasn’t enough facial hair as I would’ve hoped for. Drawing on some massive chops and wearing a fake beard does not count and those two guys should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Gay Paris is always a treat to watch live. WH is one of the most frontmen running around the country at the moment. When he speaks in between songs, it’s in rhyme. He bounds around the limited stage area with gusto. Complete in purple stockings, purple fur lined cape and a vest, the bald headed-bespectacled-bearded leader lead his dirty blues inspired bandmates through the tracks of their brilliant debut record “The Skeletons Problematic Granddaughter”.
Opening with ‘My First Wife? She Was A Fox Queen’, in which WH explained to us that she was dead (I highly doubt this) through to ‘Black Tooth Supper Club’ and ending with ‘Turns Out Your Not A Cowgirl After All’ is was an energetic, entrancing set that got the room moving. I defy anyone to not get their body moving to the riff in “Future Wolf & The Gay Parisian Milk Incident” after the line “I wear my fur coat out!”
The Beards came out dressed in sharp dinner suits and bow ties and the jam packed room erupted. It easy to describe The Beards as a novelty band. Their songs contain a fair amount of humour to make you laugh, while being musically catchy and serious songwriting. But really, who cares. They are just a good band to watch live.
The Beards stick to a gimmick, a formula, a mantra if you will where everything they sing about revolves around the beard. The growing of facial hair symbolizes everything that is a man. The hairy male is back in vogue (and isn’t this reviewer cheering by that) and leading the brigade is The Beards. Tracks like “You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man”, “If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums” and “Shaved Off His Beard” with the classic line”Kings Of Leon shaved off their beard/and now they’re shit”.
Tonight was all about the facial fuzz. The celebration of the beard and the crowd loved every second of it.
Gay Paris is always a treat to watch live. WH is one of the most frontmen running around the country at the moment. When he speaks in between songs, it’s in rhyme. He bounds around the limited stage area with gusto. Complete in purple stockings, purple fur lined cape and a vest, the bald headed-bespectacled-bearded leader lead his dirty blues inspired bandmates through the tracks of their brilliant debut record “The Skeletons Problematic Granddaughter”.
Opening with ‘My First Wife? She Was A Fox Queen’, in which WH explained to us that she was dead (I highly doubt this) through to ‘Black Tooth Supper Club’ and ending with ‘Turns Out Your Not A Cowgirl After All’ is was an energetic, entrancing set that got the room moving. I defy anyone to not get their body moving to the riff in “Future Wolf & The Gay Parisian Milk Incident” after the line “I wear my fur coat out!”
The Beards came out dressed in sharp dinner suits and bow ties and the jam packed room erupted. It easy to describe The Beards as a novelty band. Their songs contain a fair amount of humour to make you laugh, while being musically catchy and serious songwriting. But really, who cares. They are just a good band to watch live.
The Beards stick to a gimmick, a formula, a mantra if you will where everything they sing about revolves around the beard. The growing of facial hair symbolizes everything that is a man. The hairy male is back in vogue (and isn’t this reviewer cheering by that) and leading the brigade is The Beards. Tracks like “You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man”, “If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard, You’ve Got Two Mums” and “Shaved Off His Beard” with the classic line”Kings Of Leon shaved off their beard/and now they’re shit”.
Tonight was all about the facial fuzz. The celebration of the beard and the crowd loved every second of it.
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