We Are Scientists @ Siren Festival
Look who's back and playing as themselves. It's Keith, Chris and Mike testing out new material for a future album, tentatively titled Do Smoke Detectors Detect The Smell Of Smoke? or Mermaid Stewwwww (Yuck!). That's not going to go over well at Virgin. The songs that I heard for the first time are less dance rock and more glammy, psychedelic rock. Good for them. There was a riff in there that was down right Wolfmother ripping off Led Zepplin. I was impressed.
The We Are Scientists crew are one of the many local acts that have become big names before our eyes. Back in my day, I saw We Are Scientists play some guy's tool shed in Queens and we liked it dammit. I remember how surprised I was when I saw a big display in London music shops for With Love and Squalor. They are like the shit in the U.K. This fall, they are doing a big arena tour with Kaiser Chiefs. First, they need to rock out to a bunch of sun drenched hipsters and homeless people sweating on concrete with no shade.
Check out Big Sexy Keith in these pictures, the graying hair makes him looks distinguished, like George Clooney or a young Bruce Campbell. With his vegan lifestyle, he's looking svelte and fit. Meanwhile, Chris had a run in with some barber equipment and decided to let the shears take over. No more porn-stashe.
I thought there'd be a new 4th member playing with them at Siren?
"Check out Big Sexy Keith in these pictures,"
haha, what a great line!
What a great review. A+
Posted by: adrian | July 26, 2007 at 01:49 AM