leeson: cheap and excited
September 5, 2008
Here’s a local band that doesn’t sound local, just like our Olympics team and radio DJs. Cheap and Excited are the two things I remember about them, from their Baybeats performance.
“Get our album! It’s only $2! Like us, it’s cheap.”
And excited: Jamie Michael, the lead singer, is constantly pacing the front of the stage and swinging his microphone wire with every turn. In particularly excited moments, he snatches up the wire and throws it on the floor emphatically. A move swing is familiar with, yes swing? Well, if you’re not doing rock, you can certainly pop it out.
“Mr and Mrs” is the catchiest, or it could be because I’m biased towards strong bass lines.
Baybeats is always a sweet affair for bands that start out, and for young well-dressed folk looking for night festival fun. Ah, to be seventeen and awed by everything again.
*crush
