Mylo

Saw Mylo last autumn and then again last week in Aberdeen and he/they've been great both times. At the last gig, it was pretty live with guitar, synth, bass and mylo's brother on drums. Their set list could've been improved a bit though. quite a few slow and boring filler tracks in the middle and it was so obvious they were going to come back on for an encore as they left 'under pressure' till last. The music's cheesy and fun and a far better atmosphere than some moody minimal sausage fest.

Having seen Mylo perform a good set at Pukkelpop festival this year, I was looking forward to seeing them live at I Love Techno, Gent, Belgium, 13th Nov 2004. Myles McInnes (the man behind Mylo) on keyboards / guitar, was accompanied by a bass player and a guy on fx/mixer. Sadly, the only way to sum up their performance is "extremely disappointing". Mr McInnes spraying the audience with champagne, like they'd just won the Formula 1 Grand Prix, BEFORE they'd even started their set, was not a good sign. And it basically went downhill from there. Frequent technical problems with their backing track meant they had to abandon 3 or 4 of their songs in mid-performance. Embarrassed, muffled apologies from an inebriated McInnes didn't help matters either. The quality of the sound itself gave me the distinct impression that the champagne was flowing way to freely amongst the sound engineers too. It all seemed very much as though the recent successes had gone right to their head.
Disjointed, lacklustre, embarrassing. What a sham(e).