The Bees/Saul Williams reviews

The Bees @ the Corner 04/01/07

On a night so hot that belts were pointless because the sweat clamped your jeans to your legs, Melbourne’s tireless punters lifted themselves from sticky couches and ventured to the Corner Hotel. Why? Well, a cold beer on a hot night and the added bonus of hearing the British six-piece The Bees finally hitting Australian shores in advance of their upcoming third album, The Octopus. With a debut album called Sunshine Hit Me, perhaps it was no surprise that when The Bees came to Melbourne we had to brave sweltering heat to hear them play.

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Saul Williams - Saul Williams

He’ll smack you in the head with weights of history and politics, and leave you grinning for more. Without his humour this album would feel like a violent, bitter tirade from an outsider raised on stray pages of the Black Panthers handbook. But Saul manages to blend a twisted sense of humour with a Black Power stance that makes Chuck D seem like Michael Jackson.

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