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Live Review: Polysics Tours the UK |
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Written by yuki melodies
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005 |
Polysics performed their first show to their UK November tour at the London venue Barfly on 1st November.
The venue was packed with people ready and prepared to have their minds
shaken and blown away by the four piece popular New Wave, Rock band
from Japan.
A nice warm up start came from the Swedish support band for the night
called Quit Your Day Job, teamed with synthesisers and jerky guitars
there was also a wacky vocalist, furthermore a Devo inspired sound
seemed to be present in their music, of course Devo are Polysics's
heros! How appropriate could they be for the night?
Later, after a blast of Devo's music for the break Polysics were soon
armed and prepared on stage, everyone was
ready for take off!
The set list for the night covered quite a few new songs from their
coming Spring 2006 UK release 'Now Is The Time!' (Japan release October
19th) including songs such as the catchy "I My Me Mine" with Kayo and
her sweet girlie vocals in the chorus teamed with her chirpy tunes on
the recorder.
As usual Hiro was about to show off his skills in the no hands guitar balancing on head trick with the audience cheering him on!
 
The band also performed the new track "Ah-Yeah!!" produced by Andy Gill
of legendary band Gang Of Four; whilst maintaining that Polysics pop
electronica vibes there was something to this track that made it stand
out, or rather something that was a little different, perhaps it was
the talking monologue at the start by Hiro, you hardly hear this much
in Polysics's songs so it was quite a pleasant new feel that worked
well.
 
"Baby BIAS" was amongst one of the new tracks performed though of
course it was the well known Polysics songs that got the crowd going
especially crazy, practically everyone was joining in saying "My
Sharona" in the song "My Sharona", "Kaja Kaja Goo" was superb and Kayo
with her metallic gold pom poms out for "Peach Pie On The Beach" was
perfect!
The night finally ended with an encore performance of "Black OUT Fall OUT".
Overall it was an amazing night packed with non-stop rocking! Fantastic
performance from all four band members, they were clearly all enjoying
it and giving their greatest, Hiro was all over the stage, jumping up
and down, here and there, it was fun and lively which in all made it a
great experience for the audience, a gig that they can't forget easily
and are sure to keep them in a hyper up mood for some good hours after
the show or even days!
Polysics recently announced that they'll be back in the UK again next
year April 2006 to tour with British band Kaiser Chief on their UK tour.
Kaiser Chief played in this year's Fuji Rock Festival in Japan,
vocalist Ricky Wilson is said to have praised Polysics music, I suppose the two bands have met and became friends!
Photos and review by yuki melodies
POLYSICS
Now is the time!
2005.10.19 Japan version out
KSCL890
UK Version to release April 2006
www.polysics.com
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