Special Needs, London Paradise Bar 08/07/2003
by Holl(i)y
Special Needs are Glam ripped open and stuffed full of broken glass,
jagged-edged pop with Parkinsonian jolts and jerks. A tight rat-tatting
drumbeat underpinning a cascading cacophony of searing guitars and drawling,
jeering vocals, underscored by posing, howling, sneering and sewing
magazines(in a literal sense). And from underneath the weight of all
this rock'n'roll chicanery emerge the actual songs, pop gems taken and
fused with every rock sensibility going. There's a clear and most welcome
drive to Put On A SHOW, Dammit - if you're not gonna love every minute
of it then why are you bothering? It's a good thing that Special Needs
aim to matter to people, because if they carry on like this they won't
be able to help it.
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