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Live Review
by SashaS
13-11-2002
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Live: Sum 41
Sound, London
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Sum 41 mosh and go for a radio-show
Sum 41 have just announced UK arena tour for February and in meantime they are playing a show that is more appropriate for the their pre-hits days, in front of some 300 souls. It is a special performance for the indie-rocking radio station Xfm, broadcast on their ‘Live Session’ prog, but this foursome cause a major mosh downstairs as well as an irresistible foot-taps/headbang-ettes among the media/biz folks on the balcony.
This division was necessary due to the fact that only the upstairs bar was serving (you needed a pink plastic-bracelets to buy) alcohol because the devotees’ average age was early-adolescence. The band’s hyperactive guitarist/vocalist, Deryk Whibley wouldn’t miss to joke about it in particular that the Irish makers of the famous ‘fire-water’ brand sponsored the show.
Whibley generally doesn’t talk much in preference of turning music up and dropping it in clusters of several tracks that really ignite the place. (Of course the hits cause such pandemonium you wonder if the cameras, debasing the show on kerrang.com as well, are actually vibrating?) The band is playing ahead of a new album, ‘Does This Look Infected’, due out in a couple of weeks time. Still, mixture of new and loved material stimulates one huge euphoria.
Great thing about these pop-punkers is that they use the anarchy-basis to adorn them with hard-rocking elements – imagine The Ramones mixed with Iron Maiden (the metal-band’s T-shirt is worn by guitarist Dave Baksh) – with a healthy doze of pish-taking. But, these juvenile musos are also music lovers and incorporate so many other items, from complex arrangements (i.e. mini-jams) to gestures. At one point Baksh is playing guitar behind his head!
There are plenty of infectious hooks and regular sing-a-longs of these short, sharp and direct songs that reflect teenage angst-dom. Sum 41 share with their audience knowledge about the ills and inherited problems of teenagehood and songs such as ‘Mom & Dad’, ‘Heartattack’, ‘Makes No Difference’, ‘Fat Lip’, not only hit the centre of discontent but also release so much pant-up bile this lot must feel like being nice to their parents, for a rare once.
One of Sum 41’s songs is ‘Summer’ and that’s what their music is like – an early summer’s sounds for those who are just entering the corresponding life period. Sum 41 simply bang out catchy rebellious anthems. A live delish!
SashaS
13-11-2002
Sum 41’s album ‘Does This Look Infected’ is released on 25 November 2002 on Universal
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