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April 12th, 2006 by Foxopoly The Sounds, Morningwood, Action Action 04-01-06The Lizard Lounge – Dallas, TX – Sat., April 1st, 2006
Saturday’s show at The Lizard Lounge was high-energy and incredible. This was my second time seeing Sweden’s best current musical export The Sounds. They were good the first time, but this time around they were on fire. I was worried that the Lounge would be a dump (it’s easy to see why I may have assumed that from their website), but was pleasantly surprised at the overall layout of the joint upon arrival. It doesn’t seem to be so much a live venue and as a club where they give you a trucker cap if you pull up your shirt (think GGW). The stage layout made for a really intimate setting. You could literally walk right up to the bands. Action Action was already mid-set by the time we arrived around 7:30. The balcony hung out right over the dance floor nearly to the stage so we decided to sit up top in the comfy chairs. We had a couple of drinks and watched to crew set up for M-O-M-O-R-M-O-R-N-I-N-G-W-O-O-D and it wasn’t long before they attacked the stage, especially their crazy lead singer Chantal. She was quick to inform the audience that she’d just had some tattoo work done on the back off her neck and to be careful not to touch her there. It sure didn’t seem to slow her down much as she performed calisthenics, headbanged, stripped down audience members and jumped into the crowd repeatedly. They definitely came to party and show the crowd a good time. One thing I noticed is that only two of the members were recognizable from the “Nth Degree” video while the other two appeared to be hired guns (the drummer being an ex-Beastie Boys live member).
I noticed that a few people left after their set and kept asking myself, “what are they thinking??” It took a while for the crew to get the stage set just right, but when the first few bars from Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” kicked in that we were in for a real treat. [This was ironic to me because my very first show ever was Journey in 1984 in Anchorage (their famous last show with all the original members and then Randy (huh?) from American Idol on bass.] The Sounds finally came out and tore into “24 Hours” a bouncy rocker from their excellent new album Dying To Say This To You. They played every song like it was their last and Maja (pronounced Maya) was WAY into it. She dove into the decently sized crowd twice.
The Sounds played a decent length set and things never got stale even for a second. Highlights were definitely encore songs “Seven Days a Week” and “Ego“, but the whole set was fantastic. Do yourself a favor and catch these Swedes live or at least check out their two releases: Living In America and Dying To Say This To You. SETLIST |
