It seemed an odd choice, feedback loving throat killers Children Collide supporting radio friendly unit shifters the Hoodoo Gurus. Having only graced our state a couple of months ago as a headline act, here they play support role. It gave them a chance to road test thier tracks from their October due debut album. Although the crowd was quite shy towards them, the Melbourne 3-piece’s onstage energy drew the crowd in and soon had them listening rather than lining up at the bar or talking down the back like the treatment most support acts receive. Tonight they pulled 10 songs out of their arsenal including the ever catchy and best known Social Currency. Skeleton Dance is destined to be a future live favourite as are Amphibious and Fire Engine. Watch out for these guys, soon you’ll be saying, “Children Collide, I remember seeing them in 2008”.
Having only co-headlined a show in Adelaide a year ago with Radio Birdman, the Hoodoo Gurus were glad to back and playing a longer set. These veterans never disappoint when it comes to playing live. They have no point to prove so they played a straight forward, all balls rock show. Out came the hits and even some rare tracks for the die hard fans. Starting of with the rarely playing instrumental Whoopie Cushion, they launched straight into live favourite and early 80’s hit Tojo. The hits kept coming and the crowd was dancing, even the Dad who probably first saw them in the early 80’s when Dave Faulkner had hair was getting right into it! It’s hard to believe they have been around for over 25 years, but they have such a vast catalogue to choose from. They pulled out such classics as Death Defying, Come Anytime, Bittersweet, Miss Freelove 69 and the crowd went crazy right from the first note of when The Right Time cranked out of the amps.
They have such a rapport with the crowd that they asked the crowd for a request. One lucky punter got his song played. Nobody of the brilliant Crank album received its first Adelaide airing since the 1993 tour of the same namee. The band was apprehensive at first but got the song note perfect. 11pm struck, so the night was unfortunately over but not before pulling one last hit out of their bag. Like Wow Wipeout still sounds like it was just released and the crowd them the band know what they thought of it by going crazy yet again. The Hoodoo Gurus know how to pull on one hell of a live show, its good to see they un-spat the dummy and returned to what they are good at.
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