Left or Right are an Invercargill/Dunedin band that is currently trekking around the country on its Summer Buzz Tour. The band lists its style of music as Blues/Psychedelic/Southern Rock which is an interesting mix.
The band is a three piece comprised of:
Callum Hampton - Guitar, Trumpet, Melodica, Vocals
Steve Marshall - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Metua Marama - Drums, Vocals
On the road with them is a technical crew of one that occasionally blows out to two.
According to page 108 of 45 South In Concert the band were originally called Lefty and Righty and played mostly acoustic material. Prior to that members of Lefty and Right were involved with a school band called No Fat Chicks, but we won’t go there.
The Summer Buzz tour is a long one. The first show was in Onekaka on 29 December and the last show will be in Dunedin on 12 March. The itinerary involves a lot of back track travel and some of the places to be visited are quite small communities. The band have a tour blog which can be read here: click here
In Wellington Left or Right played at the Garden Club which is located on Dixon St in the CBD. The venue was the location of the original Wellington Repertory Theatre but these days is a bar/music complex.
The show was supposed to start off at 9.00pm but it was probably closer to 11pm before the support act Force Fields got going. Left or Right played a relatively short set which included material from their “Nuggety” LP. Crowd attendance was low which will be a disappointment to the band but perhaps not surprising considering it was a coolish Thursday night and some potential punters were probably in Auckland for the Big Day Out.
I’m no music reviewer so you if you want to hear what they sound like the best place to go is the band’s Myspace site click here . For those that wish or need to use their imagination about they sound like the following description from the interwebby might be helpful;
"Left or Right perform a chunky mixture of alternative spacey roots, sonic jazz & fuzzy rock/blues. Recent live performances have taken an experimental, psychedelic, noise rock approach and the group continues to draw inspiration from retro/vintage acts of the late 60's and early 70's."
Add to what I thought was a strong reggae undertone and you might have it.
Left or Right are a band that you need to hear more than once and given that it has a propensity for extensive touring then the opportunity to do this is likely to present itself.
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