Spiral Beach, The Opera House, May 18th 2008 The pre-teen looking Spiral-Beach started off with a bang with their song “New Cloud” on a stage decorated to reflect their wacky and off-beeat (if slightly forced) attitude. Hundreds of helium filled balloons floated (and where batted at) and orange traffic cones littered the stage. There where old cartoons and the live footage of the band projected on the back wall through a few wonky distortion filters. The music was energetic and loud, but suffered from sounding all the same. It was GIANT WALL OF SOUND syndrome. The crowd seemed to be into it, but then again, it also felt like they were all classmates of the people pretending to be rock stars on stage. That’s was the other problem, the lead singer/keyboardist Maddy Wilde was way too busy TRYING to be a rock diva then actually being one(Strutting does not = Stage Precense) Guitarist and Basist Daniel Woodhead and Dorian Thornton came off much better as being humble and human as they interacted with the crowd and strummed their instruments with all the enthusiasm they could muster. The headlining affair lasted a mere 45 minutes and ended with a bit of a clunker, instead of their new UK single, the perfect pop-electro composition Voodo (which they pumped out halfway through the show). Spiral Beach is an energetic little band that needs to work on a longer set that ditches all the novelties for pure musical performance.
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