Tera Melos/Blue Whale

This will be an unfair and unbalanced review; best to make that clear from the off.

Blue Whale get better and more confident with every performance and their set on Friday night at Bar Sub opening for Tera Melos was by far the finest I have seen them play.


It is always difficult being the first band to play to a cold room, but I genuinely think Blue Whale would attack their songs with the same vigour, and enjoyment, regardless of who or how many were, or weren't, listening.

It was short, sharp and completely engaging. And they have a new secret weapon in guitarist Ben and his between song "banter".

I hate the word "banter" but I am unsure what else to call it; announcements? Speaking?

Either way, the man is funny and his, I presume, off the cuff quips, added to the enjoyment immensely.

I have developed a genuine fondness for the band, both on and off stage.

In another recent review I wrote about how I often find myself judging a band by how much I would like to not just listen to their music, but to play it; on Friday, I found myself wanting to be in Blue Whale. And if my ego is as big I suspect it is, perhaps that is the highest compliment I can pay them.

Unfortunately, with Tera Melos I found myself barely able to cope with the onslaught of their sound.

I was completely overwhelmed by the density and volume of the noise they produced, and I feel completely unable to give them any kind of fair judgment.

Anything I try to write will either be pretentious lies of inane drivel and neither would be fair to the band (a math rock Dinosaur Jr? See what I mean...).

That should not be taken as any kind of judgment of the band; it is the exact opposite, I am declaring myself unfit to make any kind of judgment.

As a reviewer what I am about to write is a complete cop-out but, you need to see Tera Melos for yourself.

Hornby

Tera Melos and Blue Whale played Bar Sub on Friday 31 January, 2014.

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