The Bloc-ROCK
The Murlocs and Co
Scala in London, near King's Cross
On the 26th February in London, The Murlocs were playing at Scala near King’s Cross station. Let’s get back to this event in details.
The Murlocs is a band of five skinny guys from Melbourne, Australia. They play a psychedelic and lyric music. They are from a new movement in music popularised in Australia and New Zealand with a lot of famous name in its rank: Mac de Marco or Connan Mockasin. This kind of music can be considered as a new pop rock psychedelic, and we can say that one of the first artist to play this was Jacco Gardner from the Netherlands. He was one of the first to play new indie rock music and was soon followed by a lot of buddy artists.
The Murlocs
The show started at Scala at eight o’clock sharp with a band of five with only one guy behind the drum. And don’t get me wrong, it was a powerful formation, electric and energetic. Special mention to the bassist who was in perfect osmosis with the drummer.
The second band to play before them was Los Bitchos, a female five-member band. The band was formed with two guitarists, one bassist, one drummer and one keyboardist. Special mention by the way to the keyboardist who was drinking tequila better than a mariachi! Without even singing this band took all of us along for a ride of a new kind of music, somewhere between Santana and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Music with a Spanish tone and a vigorous and dynamic presence.
The Krush Puppies - electric and powerful .
Los Bitchos - entertaining and intense.
At the time of 8.45p.m The Murlocs arrived finally on the stage to play a set of an hour and a half which taught us that the line is thin between pop rock psyche and bluesy hard rock. From the ballad “Paranoid Joy” to the intense “Snake in the Grass” we had a concert full of exuberant, strong and robust feelings. The lead singer, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, was particularly lively that night, singing and dancing all along, giving us the feeling of a Jim Morison revival.
It is particularly incredible when you see a band playing like that with all this passion and strength when you know that the lead singer is, for example, the vocalist and harmonica player in another prolific band, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, who released 13 studio albums in only eight years!
Ambrose Kenny-Smith, all in white and the Murlocs.