Dance-rock can be either very danceable, very carefree and can leave you with a blissful hour of moving to sounds, lights and colours (important things in life) or it can be emotionless, flat electronic crap about nothing. Now it can be argued that Cut Copy’s music is not about anything important but don’t tell that to the people of Byron.
Clearly at home in the Great Northern, Cut Copy sounded fantastic, their music was crisp and the vocals floated well above the chaos of bodies in the Backroom. The important thing to remember is that dance rock rarely claims to be something its not, and when Lights and Music started playing you could literally taste the freedom as everyone’s problems seemed so far away. At least for a few minutes.
Finally the song everyone held out for, Hearts on Fire drew a big response and the mosh became moshier as Dan Whitford pondered, “theres something in the air tonight”, with that line he had everyone at the gig on one page. Byron loved it and when Whitford sang “I reach out to you tonight”, he was definitely pointing to me.
Simon Stonehouse
Cut Copy image taken without permission from their Myspace page.
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