a mixed evening in the vienna scene: glazed curtains, old mrs bates and leap created different moods!
Why did I come all the way to Simmering that evening? Because I was shown well-made Instagram advertising for this concert and I was curious about “Leap”. So on that deep winter evening we went to the outskirts of the city to the Vienna scene to check out a total of three bands.
when I arrived late due to the weather “glazed curtains“Already in the middle of their set and I stayed at the back, in the very last row. From there the stage lighting looked very beautiful and it was the light that I liked best about that performance. Yes, I actually didn’t warm up to “Glazed Curtains” – somehow I didn’t like their band name, somehow they seemed disguised to me or somehow they hadn’t found their style yet and somehow their songs were in a good direction, but it was missing always that certain something, the twist, the melody… they somehow wanted to be everything and still couldn’t be remembered.
A short time later the second band jumped in.old mrs bates“ onto the stage and unfortunately this performance didn’t appeal to me at all either. I couldn’t look at the band, I couldn’t listen to them… everything inside me was resisting. I found everything about them boring, I didn’t like the singer’s clothes or hairstyle or his way of singing. I’m really, really sorry, but I just didn’t feel anything except an instinct to flee.
„leapcame on stage as the third and last band of the evening. I had high expectations of the British group simply because of their origins – music from London is usually very good. What was actually good from the first second: the energy of the band. From the beginning they sprinted from one corner to the other and were often at the edge of the stage, very close to the audience and sometimes even in the middle of the audience. The energy was then transferred to the euphoric crowd and the brondelde concert cauldron was ready!
Admittedly, it wasn’t entirely clear to me how “Leap” were able to win over this horde of teenage fans. Of course the group was an incredibly good live band that evening, something was always happening, there was constant interaction and lots of arms swinging. And of course the music was pretty good, catchy and sometimes I was on the verge of really liking it. But actually, at the end of every song, I kept thinking to myself that I would never listen to this music at home in the living room.
Anyway, over time everything sounded pretty much the same and I was hoping for a hit with a standout melody soon. The songs up to that point only encouraged you to gently tap along, but I wanted to feel a real urge to dance, a real euphoria because of a sound structure. and then at the supposed end, with the last song before the encore block, I suddenly felt something: “One Million Pieces” actually felt like a little hit!
At first I had my eyes closed and just wanted to listen to “One Million Pieces” and let it work its magic on me. and in fact I should have kept my eyes closed. When I looked at the stage, there were countless cameramen, securites and other crew members and that bothered me extremely. I just wanted to see the band on a neutral stage, but no “staff”. If tens of people are walking around on a stage, then a stage is obsolete, why not make music in the middle of the audience?
In any case, a few more hit-like numbers followed and everyone present was in an extremely good mood – and that ultimately made me very happy. I won’t watch any of the bands a second time, but for the moment, for the blizzard evening, Leap’s performance was at least extremely acceptable.
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