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Swearing at Motorists – Burn Down the Wire EP | Music Review

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Swearing at Motorists – Burn Down the Wire EP

Dave Doughman is a tough man to please if Wikipedia is to be believed. According to the website, always an infallible source of information, the Swearing at Motorists singer has seen 16 changes of drummers during the band’s 17 year existence.

S@M were originally formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1995 when Doughman teamed up with Don Thrasher, formerly of lo-fi kings Guided by Voices and since then he’s averaged one new drummer per year. Impressive too considering that “Burn Down the Wire” is the band’s work since 2006.

This four-song EP begins with the lovely Stop, Drop & Roll, which is typical S@M, built around Doughman’s scraggly voice with him strumming away with a beautiful melodic guitar sound. This is trademark ‘motorists. A cover of The Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” gets put through the mincer and comes out rather nicely with the trademark S@M sound – often described as “the two-man Who”. I know I’m supposed to but I couldn’t have put it better myself.

It’s a lovely offering and one that you hope will be followed by more. And more. What the band do best is good songwriting, vocals that are at times angry and at others fragile and a mix of melodic guitar and skuzzy garage rock riffs. Imagine Thin Lizzy mixed with Queens of the Stone Age and you’re close.

Has it been worth the 6 year wait? Burn Down the Wire’s splendid but a mere morsel at four songs short and so hard to judge on that basis. A bit like when you’re thirsty – the quality of the water’s hard to tell with any clarity, you just need to ingest it quickly. Anyway, I’m still thirsty – more please Dave!

Burn Down the Wire is out now via http://swearingatmotorists.bandcamp.com/album/burn-down-the-wire

Suits Review

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Suits

Dave. Tuesdays, 9pm

 

I wanted to see this legal drama since seeing the adverts for it on the tube. The trailer made me more interested. Although Suits was hyped, I am glad to say it didn’t disappoint. It is a smart, classy and witty legal drama. It is well acted and the writing is top notch. A great way to spend an evening.

Harvey and Mike are representing Wyatt, a client who has invented a satellite phone that can fit into a pocket. Whilst Harvey gets the glory of sitting in on the high-stakes investor meeting, he orders Mike to take the less glamorous role of filing the patent update.

Not impressed with this, Mike decides to take a short cut and asks fellow colleague Gregory to file the patent in exchange for proofing Gregory’s active brief. The brief turns out to be thousands of pages long and after pulling an all-nighter, Mike still doesn’t complete it. As a result of this, Gregory refuses to file the patent update and another party beats them to filing for the patent first.

Upon hearing news of this, Harvey is fuming at Mike for jeopardising the multi-million investment. However, all is not as it seems, as it turns out Mike isn’t the only one who has hindered things. Harvey receives harsh penalties from the courtroom for turning up late and having his mobile phone switched on. After confronting Judge Pearl about his rationality, Pearl reveals to Harvey that he doesn’t like him professionally or personally considering he slept with his wife.

Now Harvey and Mike must do ultimate damage control if they even want a chance of winning this case. This includes visiting Pearl’s wife, who might not be as honest as she looks.