Live
Pip Blom
Prince Albert, Brighton
November 21 2018
Words/Pictures: Steve Willcox
Currently promoting their latest EP ‘Paycheck’ around the UK, and completely selling out venues - with this one being no exception - the small upstairs room at the Albert is packed solid for Dutch indie pop maestro Pip Blom's return to Brighton after an apparently epic gig at The Great Escape earlier this year.
As the band makes its way through the crowd to the stage and gets straight into action with ‘Love Her Inbetween’ which has a fast pace of drums behind a catchy melody from vocalist Pip on guitar, there's a sense of building expectancy in the room.
The next few songs warm the audience up nicely, but ‘Hours’ and ‘Babies Are A Lie’ start to make this crowd sway.
Gini Cameron on drums looks quite distinctive in a pretty floral dress and wild ginger hair, perfecting the beats as bassist Casper van der Lans thumps away with some delicious deep chords.
‘Tired’ sees Pip's brother guitarist Tender sharing vocals with such a catchy bouncy riff that the whole front row starts to dance as this segues effortlessly into ‘School’ with Pip's guitar taking control of the start and the rest of this indie pop unit joining in with its fuzzy hooks, beats and rhythm.
Latest single ‘Come Home’ has a simple off-kilter guitar riff that develops with an introduction of deep drums and brooding bassnotes as Pip sings “Say my name if you think it’s over/you aren’t everything at once/think that your incisive/I wish I had had enough”.
Ending the evening with ‘Pussycat’ with its heady beat and the guitars feeding back into the amps that protest, letting out the odd squeal giving the song a natural ‘real’ edge to it.
It’s been a great show tonight with lots of peaks and troughs, whilst keeping their vibe going and making the audience dance to Pip Blom’s energetic indie ferocity.
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