Bad Cash Quartets career started when they were small sixteen-year-old kids. Although a good band already back then they naturally seemed relevant to a mostly pretty young crowd. Now when they are twenty-three their music is valid not only for kids with teen angst. Unfortunately a lot of people haven’t realised that yet (or don’t agree) so Mejeriet is only half full and the majority of the audience is about fifteen year old. Because of this, the atmosphere is not quite as good as one would like and singer Martin Elisson at one point ironically asks the people at the front to be a bit quieter.
Despite this, the show has got a lot of good ingredients, like some of the songs from their latest and best album “Midnight Prayer” – for example the “Dirty Days”, “Twenty Two”, “Nights are mine” and “Searching is killing me”. In many of the songs from “Midnight Prayer” Bad Cash is better and more interesting than before when they mix their usual frustrated explosions with more sensitivity and warmth.
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The strange thing is that even though they sometimes look like they play with heart and soul – Martin Elisson crawls around on the floor with his maniac face and Jonas Lundqvist does his best to smash his drum set through the stage floor – the band is a bit distanced from the audience. Partly this can be due to a too large intake of alcohol (or other substances) before the show. But this is at least not as big a problem as when they played in Lund at Mejeriet a couple of years ago when Elisson had trouble even standing up.
Another thing that adds to the feeling of distance between band and audience is that the concert is short, about forty-five minutes. Sometimes a short concert is good because you don’t have time to get bored but in this case it feels like Bad Cash is a bit stingy and doesn’t really respect the audience.
The problem I have with Bad Cash is that despite their dead serious attitude towards their music I can’t really be affected in any deep way by it. They have made some really good songs but they don’t mean anything more than that. But, of course, that’s not bad at all and they deserve to be a bigger band than they are today.
/Erik Sandberg
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