Live Review: HOLY HOLY + CLEWS + SAN MEI @ The Cambridge
You can probably guess by the relatively awful pun who they are, so I won’t even bother introducing them properly… but the fun alt rock outfit have just hit the road for their huge national ‘Faces’ tour, starting it all off in good ol’ Spewcastle. Their heavenly tunes made for a very delightful evening, so strap on your glasses and prepare yourself for another fun gig journey with Aunty Jess.
The support acts were honestly so well suited to the overall vibe of the night. Gold Coast artist San Mei’s rockin’ melodies were a pearler start to the evening, with her tune ‘Wonder’ severely impressing the growing crowd. Shortly after, beautiful sister duo Clews jumped up for their set, and well what a set it truly was. Both of their fab folky vocals melded together so magically that it was honestly impossible to decipher what voice was coming from which girl. They were giving me huge First Aid Kit feels but with a beach rock twist, and I fricken dug it hard. Tunes ‘Crushed’ and ‘Museum’ were massive standouts, and they walked off to an incredibly loud, happy crowd!
The intermission ensued, with the background playlist featuring a lot of jazzy, soft groove songs; ‘twas very effective in maintaining the thoroughly excited yet chill atmosphere at the Cambo. Although some sweaty-looking guy did come up and whisper the word ‘bukkake’ in my mate’s ear which wasn’t exactly a chill thing to do at all (if you don’t know what that is do yourself a favour and DO NOT look it up, I bloody mean it). Anyway, on bounce our boys Holy Holy, immediately gracing our God-given souls with first track ‘You Cannot Call for Love Like a Dog’. Absolutely went off, a wonderful beginning.
The room was ablaze with bopping heads as great tune ‘That Message’ came on next. For once in my life I was actually standing behind a couple whose shoulders were the perfect stage-seeing height! The moment was quickly ruined, however, when my view of the stage became a view of consistent face-eating instead. Eventually the couple took their gross antics elsewhere so my perfect stage visibility returned at last! And wow thank goodness, because I was really enjoying what I was seeing up there. Tim’s shifty power stance was incredibly dazzling, as was Oscar’s remarkable facial movements during guitar solos. I also really liked the drummer’s cool attitude and the bass dude’s cute goofy moves.
As the night rolled on our eardrums received songs such as ‘Darwinism’, ‘Sentimental and Monday’, ‘Willow Tree’ and newest edition ‘Faces’, which was made even better by some dreamy back up melodies from the Clews girls. The lads even whipped out their Like A Version of Beyoncé’s track ‘Hold Up’, and dare I say I reckon it is better than the original? I mean there might be a news story up in the next week about a local Newy girl getting slaughtered by a pack of foamy-mouthed Queen B fans, but stuff it, I stand by my claim.
At least I’ll die happy having seen Holy Holy live, because honestly they all sounded so ridiculously good. Tim’s soft, throaty voice was impeccable in every single song, and Oscar’s string skills were equally spectacular. I also want to give a little shout out to the drummer, who’s back up vocals were truly just as beautiful as the main ones, and of course his drumming was obviously very decent too. The lighting was actually another impressive aspect of the show, with the warm colours really resonating with the music that was being played. Visually appealing AND aurally awesome, a double whammy!
As the gig began to near its close, the song everyone had been waiting for kicked off, good ol’ ‘True Lovers’. Blimey, what a time it was. There were girls on shoulders, guys on shoulders, couples happily dry-humping next to the couples on each other’s shoulders. So much love and soooo much boogying, it was fricken sensational. They eventually shut down the night with massive tune ‘Elevator’, and when it ended I was immediately deaf thanks to the ginormous roar from the audience. I didn’t mind though, they truly deserved it.
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