Art of Fighting at Jive

Date: Thursday, March 17th 2005
Venue: Jive
Time: 8pm door opens, 9pm gig start
Price: $18
Bands: Art of Fighting w/ Paper Tiger + No Through Road

A spontaneous decision to go out on "St Patrick's Day" and realise that one of Melbourne's most underrated bands, Art of Fighting, had a gig (I know I do the gig guide, but sometimes vague-ness overrules the best of us) at Jive, I just couldn't miss it.

Art of Fighting make music that is just perfectly beautiful and mesmerising, I don't think anyone could resist it. Jive is a small gig venue (but with the worst lighting ever), which makes the set just personal and chilled but with a packed (and extremely tall) crowd that night, it made capturing good shots of the band difficult, so apologise for the poor quality. Unfortunately, I missed the first two bands, both local Adelaide outfits I've seen before, but people say they weren't that bad of supports that night.



The band played mostly older material from Wires and tracks from their new album, Second Storey. The singer / guitarist, Ollie Browne, has one of the best male vocals around and the whole band were just so tight and played such a great set. Everyone was so into it, singing-a-long softly and swaying to the gorgeous sounds. I loved how Ollie would close his eyes when he sings and the crowd would do the same. Just captivating and brilliant.


Beautiful. Personal. Amazing. Art of Fighting brought that on the night.