Dodgy - Building 21, Barnsley - February 11th 2011 (Live Review)
Monday, 14 February 2011
Written by Sally Atlass
Being a child of the ‘90’s, I was incredibly excited when it was announced Dodgy would be playing the opening night of Building 21, a warehouse style venue just to the south of Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
The band walk onto the stage without fuss, and launch straight into favourite 'In A Room', raising expectations that it’s going to be a night of sing-a-long anthems. We’re slightly disappointed though, and they instead use their headline slot as an opportunity to promote their new album. Fair enough, many other bands would do the same. But you would also expect them to indulge the audience a little but more.
This isn’t the only place where the band fails slightly. There’s no energy from the band, and all three of them are ridiculously static on the stage. The drummer providing most of the banter with the audience, and even that isn’t much. The fact that the venue is fairly intimate for its size, and the fact that it was far from sell out, seem to have disillusioned the band somewhat. An absolute shame, as the punters did enjoy themselves, and belted out the odd song they knew with gusto. When the band do play one of the more well known tracks, they’re almost dripping with boredom.
Dodgy finish their set amongst some applause and cheers, and deem it enough to warrant a two song encore. They troop back onto the stage with as much enthusiasm as they’ve had all night, and launch into another song no one knows. Rather disappointingly, they end on a cover of Al Wilson’s 'The Snake'; although it did receive more adulation than the previous song.
It was a night that should have been better than it was. The band brought none of their energy and happiness from their hey-day, and it was almost as though they didn’t want to be there. The only highlight was 'If You’re Thinking Of Me', which almost gave the evening a feeling of scale when the crowd sang back the chorus momentarily. It still felt somewhat disjointed though, summarising the whole night.
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This isn’t the only place where the band fails slightly. There’s no energy from the band, and all three of them are ridiculously static on the stage. The drummer providing most of the banter with the audience, and even that isn’t much. The fact that the venue is fairly intimate for its size, and the fact that it was far from sell out, seem to have disillusioned the band somewhat. An absolute shame, as the punters did enjoy themselves, and belted out the odd song they knew with gusto. When the band do play one of the more well known tracks, they’re almost dripping with boredom. 
