back from Fujiya & Miyagi at the Ubu, Rennes
First part by Candy Clash, a french 70/80’s sounding electro-rock band. Don’t turn away at the myspace sound, it felt much better live, groovy and all. Weird little thing I noted: seems like the bass player played his instrument like one would play the guitar (mostly the way he used and positioned his right hand, but I’m sure I saw him play chords with his left hand).
Next were Fujiya & Miyagi (which is an simple progressive electro-pop english band, as its name implies). Very nice sound, well played even though I wondered for the first songs why they had a drum set on stage while they were using simple drum machine patterns. It turns out that there was a drummer behind the set! But it sounded a bit dull. They played a short set (a bit more than 1 hour, methinks), about half of the songs from the late Lightbulbs album.
Candy Clash, Fujiya & Miyagi: good!
Public: between so-so and just plain bad (not that many people moving around!)
(and it was cold out there afterwards!)