Saturday, November 10, 2018

Gigs #86-90 Nina & Friends @ Soundbar Orlando

An opportunity to catch some SynthWave stuff in downtown whilst on holiday in Orlando.

Watch Out for Snakes was first up, a diminutive keytar carrying bundle of hipster muscle that struggled to have any stage presence whatsoever, but who's music served fine as an opening act. I quite liked some of it! At times he seemed to disappear within the output of the smoke machine.

Second up I think was MoonDragon, a local lad who mixed his synth stuff with some classic 80s visuals including lots of Top Gun. I liked his music.

The surprise of the night was ACP PRO, 2 guys whose music didn't really fit the theme of the night but who had some absolutely stunning tracks within their AV set. Their track Q*Brick could easily have been an Orbital production and it sounded incredible. They seemed genuinely pleased when I told them this, and I liked that they thought I was informed in the genre based on my accent alone :) 

Parallels are really good, I'd seen them in London before and liked their stuff, but they were missing the drummer tonight, Holly said her brother had had visa issues. She seemed happy I had come to see the band and that I'd also seen them in London.

Nina played her standard style of set, her singing and keys and another woman doing drums and backing vocals. It's alright.

So, a good night and a nice way to escape the theme parks for a night.


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