Issue #18

RICS BAR || 8pm Friday 6 March

By S.S. Shaman || Photography by Greg Elkenhans thing, its who we are but where’s the ego driven INXS rock glammar gone? The band has a tight sound on stage and well rehearsed with everyone knowing their part in the performance but also love showing off their energy and desire to impress an audience. Its also good to see a singer with her own microphone because it tells me that the singer knows their own voice well, its qualities and limits and makes use of the proper equipment to bring out their best qualities. The audience was a little slow to return the energy and just received the spectacle at first but I think that’s just an inherent response most touring musicians get from Queenslanders, yet once we get excited we get loud and wild, and it was not different this night.

The band was powerful, as I told Leah afterwards, “if you played anymore songs I think the walls would start to crack in half!” Why? A band like Evol Walks could easily meet the Calibre of The Angels or the Baby Animals and anyone who has seen these Bands know that they need a bit of space to really pump and expose their quality. The issue with Ric’s bar is that it just wasn’t the right size for these guys to really shine, but a good powerful performance from Evol Walks and definitely a band I will be watching.

Now, if you missed them, you will have to wait a little longer as they prepare for a US Tour and an upcoming EP Debut later in the Year and then they shall return to us again for a new Aussie tour after that. Let the thunder from down under that is Leah of Evol Walks smash it on!