club WITH NO NAME live review


THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE + MOOSEJAW

1st March 2001
Living up to their reputation for bringing to Peterborough tomorrow's stars today, the CWNN guys seem to have pulled it off once again. For weeks they'd been telling us they'd booked this really good band, then slowly but surely I started to see the name about (you can't miss it really it's so long!), then I heard a track on the Evening Session, then I heard Jo Whiley playing their single, then the week after this gig there's a whole page on them in the NME! I wonder how many people this time next year, when the band are really huge, will be saying they saw them at The Park? A lot more than were actually there, I imagine. The amount of people who now claim to have been at The Verve's gig at The Shamrock would now fill The Cresset.

First on tonight Moosejaw, popular Peterborough boys who may be getting a little long in the tooth, but still know how to rock out better than most of the area's younger bands. It has to be said there must be more than one Nick Cave fan in the band, or else Dean is instructing them on what to listen to. They come on with all the poison of The Bad Seeds playing a home friendly match with The Doors. Interesting vocals too, references to suicide scars and tattooed knuckles lend a very dark slant to the music.
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The Cooper Temple Clause do not disappoint. There's six of them, one of 'em sits on a cushion and one of 'em just wants to constantly rock out big time! Which kind of sums them up musically too, there's dark and there's light. One minute they'll be all mellow and lull you into a calm and relaxed false sense of security, the next they're right in your face. They've been compared to The Verve too much now and it's going to put people off. There's definitely similarities to the early Verve stuff, but we're talking before the drugs stopped working here.

The Cooper Temple Clause are a wide eyed monster of a band who are going to take it all the way with pupils fully dilated, whether they're being chilled out space cadets or full on crazed psyched-out grinning monkeys, all of which they manage to do in the space of a few minutes on "The Devil Walks In The Sand", the first track on their debut single The Hardware E.P. - it's out very soon, buy it and wish you were there! If you were there then chances are you've already put your order in.


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