Artist: Wavves Source: Adam Lacey
We’re all upstairs in Whelans: hairy bloggers, bespectacled musos, hacks, hot chicks, headphone-sporters and haircuts…and we all want to see 22-year old San Diego scuzz-prodigy Nathan Williams, AKA, Wavves.
Unfortunately, I manage to miss Weil Rats (apparently a fine performance) but I do catch Dublin Duck Dispensary who deliver a solid display of reluctance, fun, noise, irony, smart-arsedness and fuzz.
Shortly after 10pm, a miniscule, not-as-skinny-as-I-imagined, extremely young-looking Nathan hops onto stage, nearly tripping over his Flock of Seagulls-meets-a mountainman-rapist haircut. It’s just he and his drummer, Ryan Ulsh, and as he nervously plops himself in front of the mic, Nathan mumbles that he has ‘nothing to say’ before introducing 'a new one’ and strumming out the doo-woppy Weed Demon.
The duo proceed to blast noisily through a set that includes California Goth, Beach Demon, , No Hope Kids, Summer Goth, Wavves and crowd-favourite So Bored with many of the tracks bleeding jaggedly into one another but, in a live setting, boasting a far fuller, more definitive sound than comes across in his recorded work.
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