Lime Cordiale + Approachable Members of Your Local Community @ Corner Hotel 30-10-19
words & photos: Sarah Rix @sarahrix
Review
“…They’re damn fun to watch, talented, and ready to deliver.”
If you’ve yet to familiarise yourself with Lime Cordiale, you’ll want to get started. Writing tunes worthy of festival singalongs and taste-making Apple commercials (plus a seal of approval from the chart-topping Post Malone, with whom they’re now label mates), the Sydney-based band is set to be the next big thing.
Opening the show was Approachable Members of Your Local Community. The four-piece Melbourne band was affable and, indeed, approachable in their matching Adidas tracksuits and penchant for high-fives and between-song banter.
Theirs is music that doesn’t take itself too seriously (case in point: one of their songs was about twerking on the internet); like Father John Misty without the sardonic irony.
Kicking off a string of sold-out shows at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel (plus one all-aged matinee earlier in the day), even Lime Cordiale themselves seemed surprise at the warm reception.
“We’ve been coming to Melbourne for 10 years,” they’d tell the crowd – a room full of Triple J listeners singing along, loudly, every chance they got – part-way into the show. The packed-to-the-brim reception is, evidently, a new feature for them.
Luckily, their under-the-radar history makes for an exceptionally well-honed live act. The two brothers, Oli and Louis Leimbach, tour as a five-piece, with the very welcomed addition of a trombonist who helped to extend their songs into big instrumental flourishes.
There are plenty of references to be made across their music – Arctic Monkeys, Sticky Fingers, Cage the Elephant, Jungle, and even Paolo Nutini come to mind, while their stage presence smacks of Mac DeMarco.
Highlights of the night read like the tracklist to their Spotify hits: “Temper Temper”, “Inappropriate Behaviour”, “Naturally” and “Robbery” (for which the tour is named) were all greeted with cheers. A cover of the Divynls’ “I Touch Myself” was also a welcome addition, while the washed out guitars of “Waking Up Easy” helped to cap off the set.
Musically, Lime Cordiale may not be reinventing the wheel, but they’re absolutely holding the stage. They’re damn fun to watch, talented, and ready to deliver. Take note Australia: this is a band that’s poised to break it big.
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