Annandale Birthday Week Jun 29, 2007 (17 years ago) Annandale Hotel Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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Rocket Science Annandale Hotel June 29 2007
Rocket Science relaunch for their first Sydney show in more than two years.
While the supports Walrus and Front End Loader - who at one point downed tools in a Tequila demanding industrial action - were exceedingly solid and created a fair old ruckus, they were simply outgunned tonight. Within minutes Rocket Science reclaimed their mantle as on of the best live band’s in Australia.
The band operate on the very fractious edge of music. The sound they create is almost organic in that it seethes, surges and pulses with an energised existence of its own. It is aural abduction, taking you to an otherworldly place not of this time. While their equipment and demeanour could best be tagged as ‘vintage’ they are no mere throwback sounding retro band. Rocket Science create the soundtrack to the looming frightful future, best shown by the disturbingly technical One Robot.
The set is fuelled with a frantic urgency. The guitar rips and wails alongside the relentlessly throbbing bass and combustible drumming. The band providing a volatile stockpile of sound that is ignited by the searing bursts of organ and theremin and the manic howl of Roman Tucker up front. The whole effect is just all-encompassing, hypnotically drawing you in like a tractor-beam.
The imposing Tucker is barely constrained by the edges of his instruments as he harnesses and conjures noises and transmissions from parts unknown while frothing forth and purging vivid bursts of vocals. The band’s recent return to the stage is accompanied by an imminent return to the recorded world.
A swathe of new songs were sent swirling into the world including Alive, Sinful Cowboy, Weekly Dreams and Psychic Man before they delved back to the incendiary Burn in Hell from their nearly decade-old debut, which they would revisit for a devastating final coupling of 6 Foot 4 and Copycat. They left behind carnage. The guitarist was last seen as a pair of legs falling back over a stack of speakers and Rocket Science departed leaving a trail of instruments strewn across the stage. Nothing was left but the smoke, sweat and the ringing and an intact reputation as one of the finest live bands in the country.
Set List
Jet Set Run Like A Gun Alive One Robot Sinful cowboy Weekly Dreams Pop Lover Different Like people I Need your love Being followed Jet Lag Psychic Man Modern Life Burn in Hell -------------------- 6 Foot 4 Copy Cat
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