This review was first published on The Public reviews.
Now that music as a product has been made redundant, live performance has reclaimed its rightful place as music’s home. Which makes the concept behind Biding Time (remix) seem necessary; a hybrid between a gig and theatre, devised by a Band called Quinn, fronted by the ridiculously sexy Louise Quinn and director and writer team Ben Harrison and Pippa Bailey.
The flyer for the event promises a rabbit and its a rabbit we get first, hauling our lead singer on to the stage and coaxing her to play a guitar. Dressed in a blue cardigan and Sandra Dee skirt, she starts to sing. However we don’t hear her in the space as her voice comes through each audience members earphones, because this production is using Silent Disco technology. The effect is disorientating, creating the intimacy of listening to a voice through headphones combined with the distancing effect of having this voice dismembered through technology.
The songs are interspersed with Mighty Boosh style film projections; grotesque characters who attempt to berate and cajole the band into becoming what they want them to be. Quinn, makes a great front woman, embracing her theatrical role with gusto and transforming herself into vamp and back again, The music is cool and catchy and carries the whole piece along, the whole effect is something like Forced Entertainment crossed with Blondie. Sometimes, the whole piece felt too consciously cool and could have done with less swaggering rabbit and more use of the silent disco technology, but the concept was a breath of fresh air.
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