THE VIVIAN GIRLS, BRUNA, NINETYNINE, TRIXIE'S UNDERSEA ADVENTURE, SIR, MINIMUM CHIPS
Live @ The Public Office

review by Anthony Carew
Beat 18-4-2000

Six acts with full sets and appropriate breaks, makes for a very long evening. Six acts of this quality makes for a very good evening. Minimum Chips, commencing, were absolutely brilliant. It left me wondering when exactly it was that they became, y'know, this fucking good. Now with added bassplayer - playing absolutely beautiful, melodic and complex parts, it should be noted - the result was not too dissimilar to when local postrock card-carriers By Ferry or Steamer gained themselves a bassplayer, tightening and stengthening the sound indelibly. On several moments this anchored edition of Minimum Chips were so impressive they recalled the heavenly highs of psychadelic beatnik-pop brummies, Broadcast: a charismatic thickly-woven sound of wandering bass/ edgy-guitar/ scattering-drums/ droning-organ/ radiant-vocals that recalled their excellent recorded work, as opposed to their not-so-excellent live track record.
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