RHUM

A brass band that says sings lyrics like 'a-licky-bom-bom'? I can’t remember Harold Bishop, my cultural touchstone for brass instrumentation, ever saying freaky-shit like that to Madge. A brass band with a rapper? A brass band that has a rapper who will stage dive... and keep singing while lying face-up, atop his adoring, groping fans? Slow down Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, you're shattering my pre-conceptions. My compartments are all jumbled up. Having just watched Spiderbait play a Nirvana cover, it was awesome, yet comfortably within my frame of reference. HBE are from another time and place, an alternate reality where Jazz stayed urban and The Beetles never happened. A place where my feet aren't soggy and racism doesn't exist and George W Bush worked his entire career, uneventfully at Target, but never made manager.

HBE are my favourite band of the day.

FULL LIVE BLOG: Splendour In The Grass 2012