The Temper Trap, Alpine, MT Warning @ Festival Hall, Melbourne (24/04/2013)
The Temper Trap small tour of Australian’s East Coast kicked off to a good start. Festival Hall was packed with big fans that were all extremely eager to see the band. The five piece band announced the little tour to also highlight the Groovin’ The Moo appearance they are making.
The supporting band MT Warning had a reasonable sized crowd. The new up-and-comers have already started supporting some big bands around the place. They played a great set with ridiculous body hair and overly large hats swaying to the grungy sounds. The crowd present were bobbing up and down on the spot and tapping their feet to the good tunes. Besides a guitar strap mishap, the band played a solid set.
The appearance of Alpine on stage brought a larger crowd, with people screaming “I love you!” from the pit. The two lead singers were wearing fantastic, different coloured jumpsuits that definitely caught the eye. The band definitely know how to draw the crowd with incredible theatrics, crazy dancing and an insane amount of jumping that left them breathless at the end of each song.
Too Safe, Gasoline and Hands had the crowd excited, the overall sound of the set was really good. They played a bunch of other songs from their album, A Is For Alpine, which had everyone dancing in the pit and swaying side to side. The overall energy from the band was incredible and they interacted with the crowd really well between tracks. Alpine played a small half hour set, but by the end it didn’t look like the lead singers, Phoebe and Lou, had any more energy to continue anyway. A good warm up band for the main act to take stage.
The half hour wait for The Temper Trap to take stage was long, but when the venue went black the crowd started to scream. The strobe lights went crazy and the band took to the stage.
The band waved to the crowd and started the first song Love Lost. The immaculate start helped the crowd know that this was going to be a good performance. An old favourite Fader was next and had a fantastic guitar solo. The Temper Trap’s lead singer, Dougy Mandagi, has a sweet angelic voice that did not miss a note and seemed to only make the crowd more excited.
This Isn’t Happiness and Rabbit Hole were played and sung well by the band. The light show definitely brought the concert together. But a Temper Trap concert is not for people who would probably have a seizure from the strobe lighting. More songs from their album Conditions were played, as well as a performance of Miracle. All of these songs lyrics could be seen on every member of the audience’s lips as they swayed to the songs.
The crowd were then lucky enough to hear the first new song that The Temper Trap had recently wrote and not performed yet. The new song, Summer Is Almost Gone, was received well by the crowd, who screamed and yelled at the end. A few more songs were played, with Mandagi getting more involved with the crowd when he jumped down into the photographers pit and proceeded to grab hands of overwhelmed fans.
The band thanked everyone for coming and walked off stage, of course the crowd started to scream for an encore. Soon the audience was clapping and stamping their feet on the ground so hard the floor was shaking. The Temper Trap ran out and played Trembling Hands, then following with the international hit Sweet Disposition. The crowd were screaming the lyrics in the chorus and dancing to the jangly guitar. The whole performance was played brilliantly by The Temper Trap, and chose some good supporting acts.
Elizabeth Alderslade
The supporting band MT Warning had a reasonable sized crowd. The new up-and-comers have already started supporting some big bands around the place. They played a great set with ridiculous body hair and overly large hats swaying to the grungy sounds. The crowd present were bobbing up and down on the spot and tapping their feet to the good tunes. Besides a guitar strap mishap, the band played a solid set.
The appearance of Alpine on stage brought a larger crowd, with people screaming “I love you!” from the pit. The two lead singers were wearing fantastic, different coloured jumpsuits that definitely caught the eye. The band definitely know how to draw the crowd with incredible theatrics, crazy dancing and an insane amount of jumping that left them breathless at the end of each song.
Too Safe, Gasoline and Hands had the crowd excited, the overall sound of the set was really good. They played a bunch of other songs from their album, A Is For Alpine, which had everyone dancing in the pit and swaying side to side. The overall energy from the band was incredible and they interacted with the crowd really well between tracks. Alpine played a small half hour set, but by the end it didn’t look like the lead singers, Phoebe and Lou, had any more energy to continue anyway. A good warm up band for the main act to take stage.
The half hour wait for The Temper Trap to take stage was long, but when the venue went black the crowd started to scream. The strobe lights went crazy and the band took to the stage.
The band waved to the crowd and started the first song Love Lost. The immaculate start helped the crowd know that this was going to be a good performance. An old favourite Fader was next and had a fantastic guitar solo. The Temper Trap’s lead singer, Dougy Mandagi, has a sweet angelic voice that did not miss a note and seemed to only make the crowd more excited.
This Isn’t Happiness and Rabbit Hole were played and sung well by the band. The light show definitely brought the concert together. But a Temper Trap concert is not for people who would probably have a seizure from the strobe lighting. More songs from their album Conditions were played, as well as a performance of Miracle. All of these songs lyrics could be seen on every member of the audience’s lips as they swayed to the songs.
The crowd were then lucky enough to hear the first new song that The Temper Trap had recently wrote and not performed yet. The new song, Summer Is Almost Gone, was received well by the crowd, who screamed and yelled at the end. A few more songs were played, with Mandagi getting more involved with the crowd when he jumped down into the photographers pit and proceeded to grab hands of overwhelmed fans.
The band thanked everyone for coming and walked off stage, of course the crowd started to scream for an encore. Soon the audience was clapping and stamping their feet on the ground so hard the floor was shaking. The Temper Trap ran out and played Trembling Hands, then following with the international hit Sweet Disposition. The crowd were screaming the lyrics in the chorus and dancing to the jangly guitar. The whole performance was played brilliantly by The Temper Trap, and chose some good supporting acts.
Elizabeth Alderslade