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Indie Pop Happy band: - Alar Dananananaykroyd.
There would be four of us. I would play the bass, but occasionally I would put the bass down and jump around a bit and sing tunes about things.
Harry would play the guitar and make jingly jangly, happy, catchy riffs.
Frank would drum, loudly and make a load of clapping noises with his sticks whenever he could.
Pete would sing, and play rhythm guitar, have short hair, plump glasses and an odd face, but, everyone would think he was cool, all the same.
And we would all jump into the audience whenever we could and played amongst the people.
We would make poppy happy songs about girls and oddly amusing tales of happy people and their lives, sitting in cafes and such.
We'd make crazy tour people and make sure we broke the 4th wall quite substantially as we would talk to the audience and ask them stupid questions and stuff and occasionally get them up on stage and do dances and shit.
'Cause it's cool if a band does that, not so cool if an actor asks a member of the audience to come up and recite a monologue or something.
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its not really a 4th wall, as a band who do not interact with an audience, generally, are crap.
Well, you say that, but, some bands just put on a show.
There's a band called S.C.U.M. and they like conjoin their entire set into basically a long, progressive stream. It works really well. They create an atmosphere.
To say that a band that doesn't interact with the audience on a one to one level are crap is a pretty limited idea of the live band. It works for some genres, mainly bands that have a dancy, pop element to their music, because, it's all about having fun and such and that interaction is good to help the audience familiarise themselves with the band and feel more comfortable acting a bit free.
However, this isn't the case for all bands, and it doesn't detract from the music.
Aha.
It's usually the difference between a gig and a show.
Some bands just perform some songs and fuck off.
Some actually try and create an experience.
As I said for S.C.U.M. I've seen them live and they were so good. They use limited lighting, but what they did use was effective and it gave the music a mystical, gothic and out of body feeling.
I think to full appreciate such music and shows of that ilk, you need to appreciate that certain bands care more about getting a musical reaction than trying to become buddies with the audience as you shouldn't have to.
I like any type of band who try and create something new and appreciate the buddy gigs as well as the serious shows that try and create a spectacle, but to say bands who do that are somehow worse than the others is a bit far.
And as I said, you wouldn't expect someone performing a piece of Mozart to care about winning an audience round with showing that the audience matter as much as the band.
It's about the music, not trying to kiss the arse of the audience.
But yes. :)
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