We're sat, sat in Leeds with all of these old time mods hanging around us and kids on the dance floor playing with paper aeroplanes and getting them stuck in the disco lights that were unlit. I'm happy, I've gone and bought myself a Harrington jacket, my friend, Jade, is happy - she's gone and got herself with a fur coat so all is well. We're all waiting for the Finnlys to come on.
The band get on stage; Sam Parkes, Tom Dart, Johnny Leonard and Karl Rigby. They get into sound check, luckily enough this didn't last as long as Miles Kane's sound check but it was close, there seemed to be complications with the microphone but it was sorted - but not until they were actually performing.
Parkes, lead singer and bass player, didn't have much audience interaction, there were thank you's, after a half arsed applause from the audience, and he would inform us which song they were playing. When he sang he resembled Alex Turner though there was less of a Yorkshire twang in his voice, it was strong like Miles Kane. As for the matter of his bass playing skills, he wasn't the best bass player I've ever heard but half way through the set when Leonard took the bass it was like a new force had entered the stage, with that block of wood of a bass strapped to him, his fingers were going like thunder all the way across it! As a guitar player, being that he was playing lead, he was average, the odd missed note on the riffs but he managed to pick it back up but his bass playing was definitely his strongest point, he was brilliant - he would do a great cover of the 'my generation' bass line.
The Finnlys also gathered around the drums a couple of times to do something I have never heard of or seen a band do before, they all took some drum sticks each and all played on the drums whilst Rigby kept the main beat going, Leonard and Parkes with one snare between them making an army beat and Dart tapping along on the cow bell. Visually it was great, there was the odd time where they would go out of time but Rigby kept them all in line after a couple of mistakes. It was mental, brilliantly done.
A cover of 'Dreaming of you' by the Coral was done, it was a lot more upbeat than the original and I'm not sure it worked as well, though the song is quite upbeat anyway this was almost sped through. I think if they slowed it down a little it would have been great though they had a reoccurring theme of racing through songs, as if they didn't want to be there but I don't blame them, we didn't seem like their kind of crowd - especially the kids with the aeroplanes.
The Finnlys, look them up.
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