Cheryl Caddick on drums and vocals, Patrick Cleary on guitar and vocals, and Scott Bassman on bass, play a music which is not exactly an homage to the Byrds as their moniker would presume, their sound varies from bright folk to 60’s infused-rock.
And Cheryl can do both, the drumming and the vocal harmonies, even doing the lead vocals on many of the songs which evoke the multi-layered harmonies and the soft rhythms of the late 60’s-early 70’s.
Probably one of my favorites is ‘Aeronautique’ (also the title of their self-released EP), a song, which, with its light-as-feather-ascending harmonies and its bouncing cadence, will take you to (a nostalgic but sunny) sky as the song says.
Another one song they played on Tuesday night was ‘Ohio’, a good example of these bright harmonies and crescendo-chorus, which brought that right part of sweet melancholy and shining guitars.
Other songs like ‘The Better side of life’ soaked by a Californian glow, could well make you dream of some other psychedelic tunes, and this would even be more true of the darker ‘Seasons of Love’ with its atmosphere slowly moving like a song of the Doors.
They ended up their set with a rocking cover of ‘Venus’, which, of course, sounded much closer to the 1969 original version by the Shocking Blue than the Bananarama’s take on it.