The Butterflies were affected by Mammal and Amphetame

The Butterfly Effect

Amphetame

Band: The Butterfly Effect with Mammal and Amphetame
Venue: ANU bar, Canberra
Date: 22nd April 2008
Reviewed By: Lyn Harder
Photos taken By Mark Geisel



Walking through a deserted ANU its hard to picture I’m about to hit a crowded bar. A bit of a queue and we’re in. first band on is from LA, called Amphetame. Singer Dani is from LA and rest of the band are from Melbourne. James Innes on drums, Ash Jones on guitar and Ben Brennen on bass. Amphetame played a great set, Dani’s vocals were strong tonight and strutting the stage like she owned it, reaching out and singing to the crowd. A great cover of Portishead song as well as original songs that are the melodic rock Amphetame.

ANU bar seemed about 70% male orientated tonight and when Mammal entered the stage so did most of these male fans. Mammal put on a hard, raw, rocking set led by singer Zeke, who tonight sported large rock chops! Zeke soon got the crowd moshing to such an extreme they were running around in a circle whilst also slamming up against each other, aahh…male bonding! I can safely say ANU loves Mammal. As well as the old tunes we know and love (I don’t think I need to list these songs), we heard some new songs such as (and forgive me if I have their titles incorrect), ‘paint a picture’, ‘space in time’ and ‘living in sin’ which showed us the new songs are very mammalian with an edge.
Last song was the oldie ‘incited’ with drum solo by Zane and when they finished the crowd went ballistic and mammal had to return to sing ‘hell yeah’. if we’d thought we’d seen it all, Zeke ended the night by showing us there was a half moon out there tonight ;)-

A bit of a alcoholic and toilet break and then time for The Butterfly Effect. At first we listen to music sounding like the A Team through the speakers then they enter the stage with erupted applause and then enter Clint Boge, (vocals), Ben Hall (drums), Glenn Esmond (bass) and Kurt ‘team puddles’ Goedhart (guitar). Clint very smiley and seemingly happy with himself erupted into the music that is The Butterfly Effect. Tonight we hear hit after hit as TBE play all their fave songs much to the crowds delight who mosh continuously throughout the set, even to the slower music! Songs like ‘everybody runs’ ‘a slow descent’ and more. I only wish they would play ‘beautiful mine’ maybe again one day!
Tonight we are treated to songs off their up and coming album which we’re told sucks by Clint! ‘We’re hiding’ gives us a breath of the new cd which certainly didn’t suck. On guitar, Kurt wears his trademark ‘team puddles’ tee shirt, Kurt laps the stage playing his guitar and provides us with fantastic riffs and moves.
Another new song ‘in this house’ definitely was a hit with the crowd. To end the night Clint sings The Police cover ‘SOS’ and then they are off with no encore. Funnily enough we received one from mammal but not TBE. The ANU crowd goes off; they sank their teeth into this joint and ripped it to shreds. Then into the night we all prowled