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The Coral (Liverpool) @ The Roadmender, Lady’s Lane, Northampton Wednesday, June 12

THE CORAL

With top brass pushing toward a major advance in extending musical boundaries, Natasha House decides to go over the top. Ladies and gentlemen, Crud shamefully presents: the 'staggering brilliance' of Liverpool band, The Coral.

19/06/2002

Faced with the staggering brilliance of a band like The Coral at the Northampton Soundhaus, I suddenly wish I had never attempted to become a ‘music journalist’, as I quaintly like to call my role as sometime reviewer and music fan.“Three rules,” I said to myself, when I got into this. “Never believe the hype, avoid clichés like the plague, and trust no-one.” I think I got the last one from a TV show, but it seems as good a rule as any. One thing I never expected, despite thoroughly preparing myself, was to be made speechless.

This was not in the rules. Music journalists are never speechless; they have verbal diarrhoea, which they helpfully disperse across page and screen in order to guide the uneducated masses through the musical wilderness and into the light…

Wrong again. That’s what Liverpool band, The Coral are doing.

I should really quit while I’m ahead, but I won’t (What can I say? Perhaps I do have verbal diarrhoea after all). Anyone who tells you “they create their own world” is wrong. They create galaxies, filled with dozens of worlds, each with it’s own wildly orbiting planets and stars exploding with the sheer force of quantum music physics in action, rotating and held together by a powerful gravitational force-field – the six weirdest individuals on the British music scene.

I speak of prog-rock guitars, psychedelic keyboards, blistering shouts and screams, Latino bass lines, thundering drum beats and intensely emotional lyrics rearing from the quietly impressive to the deeply disturbing.

Aged between eighteen and twenty-one, they play with the skill and conviction of seasoned pros. Fellow Scouse upstarts The Music couldn’t make this NME 5.0 show, but perhaps it’s for the best. If they’re as good as people say they are (Never believe the hype!), it would really be too much, too soon.

It takes a whole lot of acclimatising to The Coral before they sit comfortably. By ‘acclimatising’, I mean laughing – at their kookiness, their audacity, their other-worldliness…It just makes the heart glad. (Avoid clichés! Oh dear, it’s going well…) Certainly coffee-table standards Goldrush didn’t prepare us for the apocalyptic onset with their Coldplay-with-an-edge standards.

The Hoken Clone stepped closer and confirmed that something truly exceptional must be going on Merseyside, armed with acoustic guitars and a barrage of deep-south blues, exquisitely played. We are transported across the Atlantic to the rain-soaked porch of an ancient black guy chewing tobacco and singing the blues as he watches the Mississippi meander away before him…

Even their fine performance pales in comparison to the unique experience that is The Coral. As an eclectic bunch of hugely entertaining lunatics, you don’t get much better than this. Go see, and put me out of my inadequately articulate misery… I trust you to value them accordingly by telling everyone you meet of their genius (Trust no-one – damn! I’m giving up now…)


Natasha House for Crud Magazine© 2002


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