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Since his former band The Zutons disbanded, Dave McCabe has been beavering away in deepest, darkest Liverpool working towards a new direction. From tonight\u2019s showing, it\u2019s clear he\u2019s not only changed gears but switched car entirely. He\u2019s taken a swerve towards a melange of vintage synth, bold basslines and twitchy melodies which still have that unmistakeable catchy nous that made his former band a success, but with an old-school electronica feel \u00e0 la Captain Beefheart via Kraftwerk\u2019s Trans Europe Express<\/i>.<\/p>\n
As the band emerge to ominous whooshing sounds over the speakers, all dressed in foreboding priest-like cowls and Tron<\/i>-esque fright masks, one woman is heard to remark \u201cI\u2019m scared to get any closer to the stage!\u201d McCabe follows, resplendent in a white hooded cloak with matching sunglasses, like a cult leader in waiting. Things are already getting weirder than anything he\u2019s previously done and, starting off with initial single \u2018Time And Place\u2019, the overall \u201csturm und drang\u201d comes across, wrapped in a tight head-nodding rhythm that keeps things ticking along nicely. \u2018Too Damn Good\u2019 follows \u2013 all sleek \u201cticka-ticka-ticka\u201d noises reminiscent of the theme tune for ’80s TV staple Knight Rider<\/i> but with a sinister edge; like the tune in your head heard when waking from a fever dream at 4am.<\/p>\n
More tunes are played from his debut solo Church Of Miami<\/i>, keeping up the long lost John Carpenter soundtrack feel. \u2018Fake Emotion\u2019 has a great jumpy and jittery feel whilst the title track is also particular highlight \u2013 all groove and talk of starting fires and burning them down \u2013 which gets the crowd moving involuntarily closer to the stage as the song\u2019s hook locks in. Despite all this, there\u2019s still room for a few of the former band\u2019s tunes; \u2018Why Won\u2019t You Give Me Your Love\u2019 fits perfectly with the new found paranoiac staccato sound and \u2018You Will You Won\u2019t\u2019 retains a foot stomping quality that is difficult to shake off; its glam roots ring true all the more in this interpretation.<\/p>\n
So Dave McCabe is back; no less hairy but certainly more freaky and it\u2019s a welcome return for all those attending.<\/p>\n
M Le Breton<\/b><\/p>\n Ex Zuton\u2019s new flavour Hoxton Bar & Grill, London, 11\/o9\/2015 Since his former band The Zutons disbanded, Dave McCabe has been beavering away in deepest, darkest Liverpool working towards a new direction. From tonight\u2019s showing, it\u2019s clear he\u2019s not only changed gears but switched car entirely. He\u2019s taken a swerve towards a melange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dave-mccabe-the-ramifications"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"