Splattered Inc is a new blog in town writing show reviews and helping out the Columbia music scene. They just happened to have posted a show review of my band Cats and Cobras, so I’m sharing it with you here. Thanks to the guys at Splattered Inc. and keep up the good work.
Cats and Cobras was setting up, and I didn’t know what to think. As guitars were tuned and amps were warmed, a Taylor Swift t-shirt was ritually draped across the wedge monitor at center stage. Perhaps a tribute to the teen queen of the country scene? Hardly. The shirt, and any reference to tween-pop, disappeared shortly after the music began. Seth (vocalist) bid it farewell with middle finger raised. This is Cats and Cobras.
“But just when you thought New Wave was back, he was back on the guitar, with a tone so harsh it sounded like it was coming through cheap AM radio speakers.”
This dude flips everyone off. He flipped his fans off. He shot the bird to Splattered Inc’s photographer. He even kept a middle finger raised as he held the microphone, keeping a cigarette pinched between his fingers. And yet for some reason it was endearing. A smile never crossed his face, but somehow Seth was amusing, even charismatic.
I would compare this band most closely to The Killers, without the glam makeup, doing a remake of Nirvana’s “In Utero.” Dancey, melodic songs interspersed with bouts of raucous, abrasive screaming. A good example was “That’s What She Said”, the set’s penultimate track. One guitar player grabbed a keyboard and dialed up a synth sound for a short introduction, then carried on a melody as the band kicked in a danceable backbeat. But just when you thought New Wave was back, he was back on the guitar, with a tone so harsh it sounded like it was coming through cheap AM radio speakers.
Setlist:
Let’s Go
Joey Boy
X Ray
Muse
Snow
Elephant
20 Something Ghetto
That’s What She Said
Strip Pole
thanks for the post! we updated the article, so you may wanna go back and get the whole thing 🙂