Was pretty unimpressive. I can now understand why Adam said he would rather go to Kanye West.
I must say that their CD is seriously a lot more shiok than their live performance. Their live performance was seriously a drab. Their songs mostly circled around similar chord progressions and melodies. Only a handful of songs were outstanding.
The only 2 members of the band that I found cool were the lead guitarist, and the guy who plays all the miscellaneous stuff. Mainly because their instruments stood out a lot more than the others and had more interesting things to look out for.
The keyboardist is one of the members I have to comment about. I don't know if it's just me, but she seems to look pretty unconfident about her playing. She often gave the face that shows "oops I made a mistake". And I tried to spot the mistakes in her keyboard playing since she kept giving that face. But I couldn't. and why? Because I could hardly hear the keyboards! It was as if she turned the keyboards down because she was afraid the audience would hear them bright and clear. And this is a real pity because I feel that the organs and other keyboard sounds play a major role in Camera Obscura's songs. So I think this is a major reason why their live performance was so unimpressive as compared to their album. Because one of the leading instruments could barely be heard! therefore causing the whole performance to sound thin and boring.
It was also really weird that the keyboardist seemed to be exerting so much strength in her playing when I could barely hear anything. this makes me think of Amanda Ling (random). cuz she looks like she exerts a lot of strength when she plays the keyboards too. But at least I can hear Ling's keyboard's loud and clear during Electrico's shows. So it didn't look weird.
Also, the keyboardist was supposed to be harmonizing with the lead vocalist in many parts, but I could barely hear her too! In fact I COULDN'T hear her at all in most of the songs. Which made me wonder if she was just mouthing the words? Because she liked the song a lot? But then again I went home to listen to the album again, and yes, there was supposed to be harmonizing in those songs. Only the lead guitarist's vocals could be heard loud and clear.
Camera Obscura's performance was a far cry from The Bird and The Bee's, which completely blew me away. TBTB did a cover (How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees) for their encore song also, but it was strong and moving, unlike CO's cover of Super Duper by Abba, which was extremely boring, and flat.
TBTB's vocal harmonies were fucking strong, and their whole ensemble all stood out for their own qualities, very much unlike CO, whose only members that stood out were the lead guit, and miscellaneous guy.
Sorry Camera Obscura fans!
