Article "It's all about the music" du 13 avril 2010

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Street Drum Corps is described best, perhaps, by singer Bobby Alt himself.
"We're schizophrenic," he says while chatting with me after their set.
Indeed, schizophrenic describes them both throughout the years as well
as throughout the night's set.

Much like Street Drum Corps began, the night started off
entirely on trashcans with no vocals whatsoever. However, unlike the
facepaint worn on early tours to hide their faces, tonight Street Drum
Corps presents itself to the crowd wearing black jackets, hats, and
goggles and/or bandanas over their faces. The second "Victory" is over,
trashcans are removed, as are bandanas and jackets. Adam Alt moves to
his drum/trash can set up, Frank Zummo moves to the drums, and Bobby
sticks it out on vocals as a bassist and a guitarist join them on stage.
It's time for the rock.


Following a strong opening number with "Come Alive," a song
featuring lyrics such as "Is this how you like it? Is this how you want
it?" and "Make some noise," it's hard for the crowd to pretend they're
not interested. Lyrics like those just catch people's ears and rope them
into the action whether or not they wanted to be involved. And if that
didn't catch your ears, Bobby Alt introduces the band as "Street Drum
Corps from the future." Despite Bobby looking as if he stepped off the
set of a 1940's film, you're anxious to hear what lies ahead and if it
holds the answer to why this band would say this about themselves.
The entire middle of the set was a really energetic string of songs which
got people moving around even more. "Play on It," says "let's lose
control" and "get me hot, hot, hot" and features a guest drummer in a
gas mask and Adam banging on a satellite dish. Unfortunately the
satellite dish is about as close as we get to the grinders on pipes fans
got on previous tours, despite them playing "Flaco 81," an older song,
immediately after.

"Knock Me Out" is featured on the band's MySpace page and is as
hard-hitting and energetic live as you would expect from Street Drum
Corps. When you're left wanting more, unexpectedly, and due to the
band's schizophrenia, Bobby then enters the stage wearing only his
yellow and black striped tights and a military helmet upon his head to
close the show with "Little Ones." That sure is one way to get them to
pay attention -- cameras flew into the air throughout the crowd and
photographic evidence of this show-closer was undoubtedly found on
teenage girls' Facebooks the very next day.

Street Drum Corps has changed both in their music and in their
performance, but no matter what they do on stage, they sure do know how
to leave an impression as an opener. What this part of the country
needs, however, is the opportunity to experience a headlining show -- a
show where they have enough room to really move around on stage and a
long enough set to really show the fans what they're all about. We'll be
waiting, boys.



Review by: Jennifer Long

Je suis désolée mais j'ai juste assez de temps pour vous le poster, je ferai la trad dès que possible - en sachant qu'un week-end mal aux cheveux se prépare!