2022 - the year of the dan: chapter 24
Chapter 24
Sprints are a band from Dublin. Shouty punk female vocal. For want of a better handle. I enjoyed some of their singles so I got a ticket for Winthrop Avenue. The smaller sibling venue downstairs from Cyprus Avenue. And they are a most enjoyable band.
A word on the audience. Often an interesting point of note for any gig. There was the mature/ageing punk demographic – they haven’t gone away you know. Predominantly male and hanging back, yet still appreciative of a well delivered power chord and pummelling backbeat. There was the young gay contingent, no doubt helped by the fact that Pillow Queens had played upstairs earlier the same night. This crowd is a boon for any band cos they’ll dance for you, get right up the front for you, engage fully with the gig. Their energy and vibrancy is also infectious, something that goes for the band too. Then there was a kind of wild card element. At the end of the bar where I stood was a woman in a smart dress and heels, aged perhaps 50, drinking G&Ts, accompanied by a couple of men of similar age. Stragglers from The Old Oak? Well they were singing along to the songs. Initially I was curious as to who these people were. However, in the end who gives a fuck. If Sprints are about anything, it’s that everyone is welcome. So come on in with your heels and your gin and tonic and join the party.
Singer Karla caught the whole mood with one introduction – this is a big gay song about being gay – to uproars of applause. My own favourite was Literary mind, an excellent narky piece of post punk.
And maybe post punk best sums up the anything goes audience mix.
Sprints are a band from Dublin. Shouty punk female vocal. For want of a better handle. I enjoyed some of their singles so I got a ticket for Winthrop Avenue. The smaller sibling venue downstairs from Cyprus Avenue. And they are a most enjoyable band.
A word on the audience. Often an interesting point of note for any gig. There was the mature/ageing punk demographic – they haven’t gone away you know. Predominantly male and hanging back, yet still appreciative of a well delivered power chord and pummelling backbeat. There was the young gay contingent, no doubt helped by the fact that Pillow Queens had played upstairs earlier the same night. This crowd is a boon for any band cos they’ll dance for you, get right up the front for you, engage fully with the gig. Their energy and vibrancy is also infectious, something that goes for the band too. Then there was a kind of wild card element. At the end of the bar where I stood was a woman in a smart dress and heels, aged perhaps 50, drinking G&Ts, accompanied by a couple of men of similar age. Stragglers from The Old Oak? Well they were singing along to the songs. Initially I was curious as to who these people were. However, in the end who gives a fuck. If Sprints are about anything, it’s that everyone is welcome. So come on in with your heels and your gin and tonic and join the party.
Singer Karla caught the whole mood with one introduction – this is a big gay song about being gay – to uproars of applause. My own favourite was Literary mind, an excellent narky piece of post punk.
And maybe post punk best sums up the anything goes audience mix.
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