{"id":953,"date":"2019-03-25T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2019-03-25T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:03:42","slug":"inhaler-touts-voodoo-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Inhaler, Touts, Voodoo Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaler135.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaler135.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Inhaler is a Dublin band that reaches into the spaces in the music and fetches up a kind of doomy radiance. The songs assume the grave manners of Joy Division and the other boy outsiders of that age. The method is low, booming notes and electronic shimmer. But this is confounded by swerves of grace and lightness. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Singer Eli Hewson wears the stripes and black leather like a night-prowling denizen of Warhol\u2019s Factory in 1967. There\u2019s an assurance in his beat and \u2018My Honest Face\u2019 is playful and nuanced. Midway into this brief set and the casual listeners are engaged, carried. \u2018Ice Cream Sunday\u2019 provides surprise and Eli wants to manage the mood, to put down a mark, a presence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaker3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaker3-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaker3-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaker3-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Inhaker3-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>Maybe a third of the crowd know that Eli\u2019s father is Bono, and the resemblance won\u2019t be denied. He coos around \u2018It Won\u2019t Always Be Like This\u2019, a nostalgic fillip for the present that compares in a strange way to U2\u2019s \u2018Kite\u2019, a song that was partly written about Eli. Altogether it&#8217;s a steep challenge, yet the boy seemingly wants it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA-768x1042.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA-755x1024.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/toutsvoodooA.jpg 1871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Touts have a different kind of urgency, tilting out of Derry, inflamed by Brexit and injured by history. The fun moments remain, and so does the easy petulance of \u2018Go Fuck Yourself\u2019 but the better Touts songs have a howling, semi-mystical character. Matthew is confounded by state restraints and grinding circumstance. \u2018Political People\u2019 is screamingly relevant.<\/p>\n<p>They play \u2018Before We Go Forward\u2019 a Joe Strummer tune from 1984 when he was leading The Clash &#8211; Mark Two &#8211; into another round of insubordination. Touts were given access to the song before its appearance on Joe\u2019s recent 001 collection. Their version was approved by Strummer\u2019s estate and Touts in turn have accepted the generational call. \u201c<em>We better be fit enough<\/em>,\u201d Matthew declares, \u201c\u2019<em>cause there ain\u2019t a free ride.<\/em>\u201d Onwards, then.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Bailie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Inhaler, Touts, Voodoo Belfast, 21.03.19<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhaler is a Dublin band that reaches into the spaces in the music and fetches up a kind of doomy radiance. The songs assume the grave manners of Joy Division and the other boy outsiders of that age. The method is low, booming notes and electronic shimmer. But this is confounded by swerves of grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digwithit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}