i am a huge bisco fan but must say that the breakfast are amazing the way they are and shouldnt change. Barber is an amazing guitarist that is now constricted by the untz genre. There is nothing wrong with that as I said before I love the biscuits, but I dont want to see Tim ever limited by his face melting abilities.
matter of fact a lot of old school bisco fans wish bisco wasn\'t so electronic
Well, I finally got through 9 pages of this to find a post which sums it all up for me. For me, electronica is certainly NOT the way forward for this band, unless they want to alienate all the fans they\'ve built up over the last ten years - fans who have ben attracted to the fusion of styles. There is enough electronica in their sound as it is - any more would detract from showcasing their musicianship. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can set up a loop on the keyboard and let it run for 10 minutes over a two chord vamp which goes nowhere - Particle, when I saw them spring to mind - the guitarist was just a bit player and anyway, Jordan could blow the keyboard player away too with only one hand.
It\'s all about fusing the right elements and maintaining a balance. The Ozrics, as mentioned earlier, if they do go into a tracey-style jam, leave plenty of room for the guitar and live acoustic drums to all but blot it out so the loop it just becomes a background noise. Take out the loop and the songs and "traditional" instruments would still be enough. Electronica does not have that capability - The Breakfast are too talented to be wasting their time being submerged in background splurge. I have to admit that the amount they use even now I find at times can sometimes detract from the songs and after all, it is songs which sell a band to a wider audience. Would the dead have made it just on the strength of the jams? Most likely not. It is the songs whch provided the framework, the tension, the expectation. Increasing what should only be a background element in The Breakfast\'s music would have the effect of removing their identity.
The biscuits have gone way too far down the electronic route - seeing them live last year was one of the biggest disappointments in over 25 years of gig-going. It didn\'t help that opener, the bays were absolutely shite, or that Umph, despite a crappy mix (and some sloppy playing by their standards) played a damn good show, or I suppose, that Barber was still in a legplaster, but the only decent songs they played were the Floyd covers. I think it was a decision to play more rave bollocks as they were in Britain, where too many people are sadly afflicted with the desire to put big fish into cardboard boxes (seriously, watch their "dance" moves!), but it backfired as nearly everyone there wanted to hear old school bisco.
Call it old-fashioned if you like, but let the boys carry on doing what they do best - being a bloody good rock band with their own style. After all, if Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc can carry on doing what they do for over thirty years, still headlining festivals and staging sell-out gigs, with hardly a change in their sound, it shows electronica is not really necessary. In fact, of the current big bands in the world, how many of them use electronica other than for a slight bit of sonic colouring from time to time?
