Grand Pocket Orchestra at The Pavilion
February 7th, 2009 Posted in Ireland, Live Music, Music, Pavilion, Photography, corkgigs
Grand Pocket Orchestra played a couple of weeks ago in The Pavilion in Cork as part of the weekly Bootleg series. I was looking forward to seeing this band and I must say I was surprised at how young this band is. Don’t get me wrong, their music is not aged or old-man-ish but some of the tunes are so well structured and catchy that I would have expected a band that had been around the block a few times. Odd Socks is the first track I heard from them well over a year ago which was the main reason for seeing them. They have another few stand-out tracks such as Get Go and Using the Body. However on the night they played a number of tracks which are not so well thought out or crisp. I reckon they need to decide is it the pure happy pop route they want to go down or something a bit heavier.
This is one of the first times I’ve tidied up photos with a bit of cloning; the top two photos had plenty of mic stands and wires all over the place. While it does take a bit of time I think it’s worth it. Check out a couple of more photos in the full set on Flickr.
