BUNTERS BAR, TRURO (10TH AUGUST)








EL MAJESTICO

El Majestico, a five piece band from Nottingham (and Liskeard, bizarre geography fans), had serious preview write ups in the local rag as a band worth seeing. The lads are linked via their management to recent K Festival headliners Athlete and are clearly heavily influenced by the holy trinity of Brian Wilson, Ben Folds and James Broad (Silversun mainman).

Originally booked as support, a technical error resulted in them taking the whole night for themselves with two exciting sets broken only for a little light refreshment halfway. The first set showcased the band`s own harmony driven material and the second was a set of "cheesy covers" that the band wanted to kill as a public service.

The band`s own material was/is a glorious powerpop, punked up, harmony vocalled thing of beauty that was laughingly good. The audience were won over before the first chorus belted into the room. Catchy tunes that had you singing along before you knew what you were doing with yourself and this all covered with a pounding beat and full-on stage performance that included an unprovoked smoke machine, windy flame effects and an outbreak of mass guitar posing mid-song.

El Majestico had had to borrow the entire stage equipment, but this didn`t put them off one bit, in fact it almost gave them another reason to blind us with their performance. Hysterical between song banter between fans and band members alike, left you feeling like you were crashing the best party in town.

El Majestico? El Magnifico!!!

(Photos by Di Gital)