whiteboydancefloor: Nucleus at Caringbah (and Geminine)

It was meant to be a rocking night out with Geminine and Nucleus taking to the stage at the Caringbah Hotel. After driving through Caringbah 3 times, searching, I finally decided to park and go check out the only Hotel I could find that had 'Caringbah' on it.

When I entered the pub, something struck me as odd. There was a band playing, sure, but I was almost certain Geminine hadn't started playing Santana covers. And I was also pretty sure they didn't have 5 band members with a 40 year old drummer.

Suddenly it hit me, like the punchline to a badly told joke; this is a cover band. I'm in the wrong pub!

So after approximately 45 minutes of walking up several streets I managed to find the Caringbah Bizzo's, as they call it.

By the time I arrived I managed to get the last 10 minutes of Geminie and a few photos. Clearly I'd missed a good gig. The wall of sound pounding my ears was tight, heavy and had drawn a large crowd.

Nucleus took to the stage at about 11. With a gong, lots of extra percussion, an Oud and electronic drums on stage, I was in for an exciting set.

Nucleus are very interesting to listen to as there is so much going on. Each band member seemed to play their own melody and the layers sound amazing.

Due to the very melodic and progressive nature of the music some people might not have an interest in this style, but the many layers of sound and the wall of sound these guys produced would be enough for anyone to stick around.

At one point during the set guitarist Dylan played a call and response on bongos and other assorted persucssion instruments with drummer Mark before the band joined in. Shane, the Geminine drummer even added an extra percussion layer for a song.