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The Hat, Komedia, Brighton, May 13
1:59pm Thursday 15th May 2008
Live performances by The Hat are certainly both intimate and energetic, but not what I'd call music.
For that matter, they don't even call it music themselves. "Rhythmical storytelling" is how The Hat describe their sound - and much of the audience on Tuesday night was obviously really enjoying it.
Part way through a song called Wolves, large sections of the crowd spontaneously began howling along. They'd obviously seen them before.
It's refreshing to see a band with more than drums and guitars and this lot have plenty of instruments to play with, including a trumpet, trombone and double bass. But the kids' xylophone thing has been done too many times before to impress me.
Though, admittedly, I can see the attraction in Dan Clark's beautiful and haunting poetry, the melodic side of The Hat was completely shown up by the polished musicians and outstanding voices in support acts Noisettes and Jamie Woon.
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