My Top 10 Gigs of 2005: #5
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
One of Eskimo Joe's greatest strengths is their fantastic choruses and the way that lead singer Kaz belts out lyrics that culminate on a high note. So you can imagine how awesome it is when the whole crowd gets into it too, which is what happened in their gig at the Corner in August. Heck, the latest album A Song Is A City is full of those lines like the title track's "He takes his time, oh he takes his time" or This Room's "All I know is she's never impressed by me" in the last chorus.
From The Sea was the most enjoyable track of the night, as the whole crowd chimed in for the chorus of "Hello, hel-lo-oh, oh hello-oh...", typifying my earlier observation. There was still plenty of great material from the Girl album and after a discussion with the crowd, they played their first well-known track Sweater, even if they all feel embarrassed to have wrote it.
The most touching moment of the gig was when Kaz invited the crowd to lift their mobile phones up like cigarette lighters and sway them back and forth during Planet Earth. It was truly an awesome sight even from where I was and we were reassured it looked great from the stage too! Smoking may not be so cool now, particularly with it banned at the Corner now, but with this novel use of mobile phones, the tradition won't die.
Eskimo Joe were great at the Big Day Out earlier in 2005 and certainly didn't disappoint me in their full set either!
1 comments to this post
I must be the only person who hates the idea of holding up mobile phones in lieu of cigarette lighters. It just seems so tacky.
Would have been great to hear a full crowd singing the chorus of "From the Sea" though, I love that song. One of my best concert experiences was hearing tens of thousands of people singing along with "One" at the Metallica concert in 2004... seriously incredible.
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