Under the Influence Presents
The Mystery Jets
The Welly Club, Sunday 11th May
After a blazing Bank Holiday you’d think everyone’d be spent up, and I thought so too when I got to The Welly Club on Sunday and noticed only a handful of people watching the support band The James Dean Syndrome. Bugger! The Mystery Jets were playing, it was only a tenner, the sun was shining, where was everyone?! Luckily my faith was restored after I’d been for a fag and chugged my way back upstairs to find the room was boomin’, the little blighters had appeared from nowhere and the gig going atmosphere was back in the room and things were looking up. Gigs just aren’t the same when they’re only 3 deep, gets a little embarrassing. Guess no one could really be arsed to see the support band, I don’t blame em, the sound of the ambulance zooming down Bev Road probably had about as much rhythm, no offence. There was another support band but I cant for the life of me remember what they were called, organiser Dean Shakespeare even told me again about an hour ago when I screamed out of my car window to ask him when I was stopped at the traffic lights but my memories rubbish, lets just call them Dave. Dave were alright, at a glance they all just look like a bunch of benders with daft haircuts but then again you could say that about every Indie pop band around at the moment. I wasn’t much of a fan but as the set drew on I became a little fonder and they started to sound a lot better towards the end of their set, they weren’t the reason I was there anyhoo.
Doors opened at 7 and by 9 The Mystery Jets were hobbling on, giving people a good 2 hours to get ‘Sunday sloshed’ before they came on, suited me. I say hobbled on as Blaine Harrison (Lead Vocalist) hopped on stage on crutches, I didn’t know weather they were just a fashion statement or he actually needed them, you can never tell with these futuristic indie pop types but I was later to find out that he’s hurt his foot for real as I asked him about it when I saw him down Prinny Ave later on outside Linnet. I offered to carry him, like any polite young lady with strapping muscles like mine would but he just looked at me and laughed. I can’t say I wasn’t a little disheartened.
The Mystery Jets have been around for a while now since they set sail from Eel Pie island and have undergone a few different line ups but seem to have settled down with their current line up of Blaine ‘Hop along’ Harrison on Lead Vocals, keyboards, percussion and effects, Henry Harrison on vocals, guitar, keyboards and percussion, William Rees on guitar, vocals, percussion and keyboards, Kai Fish on Bass, vocals and guitar and Kapil Trivedi on Drums. As you can tell, with the exception of the drummer, that they’re a multi-talented lot. I suppose it’s not very fair to say that the drummer isn’t multi-talented but there’s not much else you can do when your hands are full, apart from maybe playing a kazoo or the piano with your feet.
The Mystery Jets have come quite a way since hitting the big time after their stream of singles in 2005, now they’re 3 albums old and looking even sharper. Their set mainly included tracks from their latest album, ‘Twenty One’, which still keeps with the Indie-pop style that The Mystery Jets are known for with their newest single ‘Two Doors Down’ sounding like something that you’d have heard on Top of The Pops in the 80’s, its great, get your shell suit out. Other songs on the album include some great harmonies from the 3 front men that work together just brilliantly. Ting Tangy, Joe Jangly and Ding Dang Doodly if you catch my drift. They played a tight, upbeat set with the exception of a few slowies but I can well and truly say that I was much more impressed then I thought I’d be, not that I was expecting them to be sh*t. In fact, balls to it, I’ll be buying their album very, very soon and it was only after their second song when I realised I was tip tapping away to their catchy tunes like a dog waiting to go on walkies and I wasn’t the only one.
The Mystery Jets are currently on tour and will be until the end of June, by which time their new single should be out and available from all good record stores but if you want my advice, go out and buy their album. If your too tight I’m sure I could lend you mine, I want it back though.
By Hullvibes Lucy Clark
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I took a few photos whilst there too, Click here to view the full gallery