tellers & girls in hawaii - bibelot - 240508

two belgian bands opening on the final night of the urbanexplorers festival in dordrecht, a frequently passed but never visited city south of rotterdam, in the bibelot, a venue half church half spaceship, a bit uncrowded at this early stage, nevertheless a nice place ... lots of old tv-screens and lamps on stage, which were part of the hawaiian setting, and aired movies of nature, roads & houses, band members and other scenes during their gig ... but first the tellers, catchy music on record, and (first time i see them) live as well, where the soft-hoarse voice and acoustic guitar play of the singer and the loops and lines of the main guitarist suck you into the songs, and the rhythm guys make you start dancing ... the singer's enthusiasm and reaction on the audience's response put a smile upon our face ... only one record (and ep) with lots of short songs, from which they made a perfect setlist, with some harder work in the last part, divided by an acoustic intermezzo including inciting us to clap along, by clapping amongst us ... then the aloha girls, different style, six on stage, so at times four guitars, producing rich guitar woven songs ... which also means music to listen to and harder to catch at once live, so complementary to the first band, but in the frame of a festival a reversed order might have been better ... still an hour was too short for their music, where the songs with the sitting singer stood out, like the magnificent fields of gold ... concluding, two bands to see more often, and to be proud of ... where are you proud of ...

tellers - if i say / more / jacknife / hugo / bit of glue / want you back / he gets high / second cat / pavement / penny / girls of russia / another coin / prince charly / holiness / memory / confess / darkest door
girs - fields / the fog / bored / found / time / bees / road / coral / couples / colors / this farm / birthday / flavor