LONDON - Borderline - Thursday 9th July
Don't think anyone who was there will disagree with the quality and magnificence of this gig.
I'd love to write a great review, but am incapable of doing that kind of thing, so instead - I'd like to invite everyone to send me their words of wisdom on the event - ether@mandy.co.uk
I'd like to say thanks to everyone who came and spoke to me... It was great and I hope to see some of you again some time soon!
THE TIMES - Monday 13th July 1998
written by Paul Sexton"One hopes Parlophone will exercise patience, especially as the bands show at London's Borderline last Thursday showed them (ether) to be what we always need : tight, melodic tunesmiths designed to remind rock's navel-gazers that it is still legal to have a bit of fun in this racket.
Their tune-carrier and chief scribe, Rory Meredith, has the visual appeal of a less brassy Robbie Williams, and his unusually high vocal pitch, which almost sounds helium assisted at times on record, gives Ether another distinctive edge. It may sound a stark omission but in singalongs like Best Friend, If you really want to know and He say yeah they have everything except a large buying public.
Live, the guitar -bass-drums configuration was well augmented by keyboards which walked an adroit line between the bluesy shake of the young Steve Winwood and the fun-for-all-the-family feel of a fair ground organ.
Their most recent single Best Friend, was another piece of bubblegum that went regrettably underchewed, while the album track I Love Her Anyway was more measured and romantic. for without you they took the hinges off and freaked out, then, in the tradition of singles bands who reveal a darker side on stage, the word 'progressive' hung over us on two experimental encore songs."
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