I’m Not Quite Too Old For: Operahouse
I’m going to see these lads play live in a few weeks and something tells me I’ll be older than every other member of the audience by at least ten years. Not that being surrounded by achingly cool and eminently squeezable young females is exactly a bad thing, it’s the grubby impression of being a bit of an old pervert that gets to you at the time. That and being looked at like you must be the manager of the place by someone you wouldn’t have shagged back when you were young enough.
Operahouse play a kind of music I waver on considerably – indie pop with plenty of danceyness thrown in. It’s not quite far enough away from those nu-rave clowns The Klaxons and their pointless ilk on one or two occasions, but by and large sticks closer to the kind of bouncey, frantic indie-pop that, when it’s good, can be superb. There are plenty of bands ploughing this furrow, but there’s something significantly more satisfying about Operahouse than many other groups to whom they might be very similar. Perhaps they’re just that little bit poppier: less smack in the middle of a scene I don’t like and more a band that flirt with it because they like a good time.
Their new single is excellent – hugely catchy and plenty of fun – and can be pre-ordered from HMV, here. It’s a cracking good tune and I have duly handed over my sheckles. I’ll be able to tell you more once the single arrives and after I’ve been to the gig, but it all looks quite promising. The carefree indie-popper in me rejoices!
Operahouse – Machine Palace (Demo)
Operahouse – Man Next Door
Fisk + I will be *ahem* reviewing Operhouse + 3 other recent recommendations o’yours in this week’s show, referring to them as Recommendations By Toad.
Don’t expect any succinct professionalism (it’s Fisk, for fuck’s sake) or any agreement (I’m 50-17% in like with the 4 tracks we will be airing), but do expect your name to be bandied about quite often.
DC
You might want to wait for today’s post – another local recommendation.
It just sounds so flattering: ‘here are some songs I think are shit, but that Toad fellow likes them so like, whatever’.
Just joking – any plugs much appreciated of course.
Yikes. Proof-Read cock up #2. While a descending interest is a novelty, & with 17% being such a precise percentage to descend to, I actually meant 50-70%.
Too late for the new boys, but’ll prolly have them in two weeks after next week’s ’special’ retrospective show (if you get what I mean).
DC