The most bizarrely amazing venue made for a blistering live set from The Tamborines in Andorra, Spain. Guitars and drums were set to supersonic and literally decimated my eardrums when I was stood up at the front. While the noise factor took away a little of the varying sounds that are more evident on their debut album, Camera & Tremor, it definitely contributed to a big beast ending to the Easy Pop weekend.
The festival is set up on the plains in rural Spain, north of Valencia, in a big US-style motel hotel with a massive capacity room bolted onto the back. The Tamborines filled this with super-fuzzed distortion and thumping beats to close out a mental weekend.
Stand out songs included the brilliantly disturbing Let Me Down, a soaring Come Together and Sally O’Gannon, sounding like a wandering Oasis vocal crossed with Jesus and Mary Chain fuzz. To finish it all off they invited everyone back on stage, including go-go dancers, DRA (who danced earlier in the night), for a supped up cover of Joy Division’s Transmission
The Tamborine’s are currently finishing off the rest of their European tour with dates in Italy, Germany and Denmark, but they’ll be playing in the UK on the 8th Feb with The SeeSee at the Old Blue Last.
