Gig Review: Men Diamler, Women Crisis

I wrote this on Saturday 21st February. It’s been waiting. Now it’s here. I didn’t want to post any off-topic blurbs during the Venice Marathon.

Men Diamler – The Greenhouse Effect, Friday 20th February 2009

This one-man act could be the most impressive that I have ever seen. With just a guitar, a voice and a rhythmic foot Men Diamler makes soft and raucous music to equal appeal. His vocals have such strength that, like an opera singer, Men Diamler has no need for a microphone.

Unfortunately, it was Friday night when I saw him. Some of Men Diamler’s vocals are sweetly quiet, like a whisper in your ear. Peace was required and the sound of drunken chattering was no great backdrop.

‘Shhh!’ Men Diamler gently requested, with a friendly grin. He unplugged his guitar, and with one finger still pressed to his lips, he softly stepped through the crowd.

The primary culprit was more than drunk. He was excitable. He said ‘Let me play guitar, I am Mariachi’. He followed Men Diamler back to the stage and haunted him. “The ladies want to dance,” he shouted. “Ladies, you want to dance, don’t you?” They didn’t. Glances became Pokémon cards. Traded.

“I think I’ve opened a can of worms here”, Men Diamler announced. He sure had. With a drunk by his side, raucously shouting over the lyrics, and trying to grab the guitar, Men Diamler pressed on in good cheer.

The drunkard would have followed Men Diamer under the legs of a tall man. Instead, the drunk wobbled and fell onto me. Later he asked me to go to a pub with him. The drunk that is.

A man that can crawl through the legs of a taller man, whilst strumming and singing, doesn't ask you to go to a pub with him. Not when you're both already in a pub. That’s just stupid.

I wish, I wish, I wish that I could have enjoyed Men Diamler without the side show. Unfortunately, we don’t always get what we want. I did come away with a ‘make your own’ CD for just £5.

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