A social club could, in the right circumstances, be a perfect gig venue. Cheap beer, chairs, tables, pool table and so on. Distracting as they may all be, the vibe is guaranteed to have a certain relaxed tint to it.
On the other hand, it might mean that people who normally go to that social club every Friday night have been there since the early evening so the door-folk have stopped letting anyone in. This in turn means that half the people in the venue aren’t even there to see the band. Add on top of that the fact that this is an album launch and thus packed with journalists and industry workers, and you’ve got yourself some disinterested chatter.
Take into account now that social clubs don’t have the best sound-systems you’ve ever heard, that Field Music have only two members here tonight, and that they play twee indie-pop, and you probably have an inkling at the lack of intended audio experienced here.
Working-class ‘band of the people’ sentiments aside, gigs in social clubs are just fucking annoying.
Nonetheless, the first few rows seemed happy, and in front a garish gold curtain the two instrument swapping Sunderland-ers rolled out over an hour of catchy, quirky, well-written, nicely executed and genuinely intelligent one-guitar-and-a-drum-kit pop music. And from what I heard, it was pretty decent.
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