Live review: Tula (SE/DE) doesn't play covers.
Some bands just seem to stay under the radar until they play some song that attracts more audience than just their inner circle. The partially Swedish partially German band 'Tula' initially wrote their own darkish electronic music with female lead vocals until they recorded a cover "Wicked Games" of Chris Isaac. A wonderfully fragile electro-infused re-interpretation of a classic popsong. It got picked up by German radio and it turned into a hit. Unfortunately I hadn't heard of it until an announcement of their upcoming gig in SugarFactory (Amsterdam) popped up on www.nordicvibes.com. "Tonight, beautiful minimalistic Scandipop for just 5 euro!". Their own Facebook however could make your eyebrows raise a little. Genre: "Whatever".
The night started of with the support-act singer-songwriter Stuart Mavis (NL). Interesting choice yet very entertaining with some good songs in Dutch and English. About half an hour later the headliner of the night took the stage. Tula began their performance with a low-fi yet strong intro. A great start of the night! Unfortunately after about 3 songs it all sounded alike. Surely the melodies, drums, bass were not the same but the first impression of "Nice!" faded away quite soon. The singer couldn't change the wearing of as also in the vocal-parts there were many repeats in lines and vocal-manners. In the end it got on my nerves. But they could still score bonus-points. The crowd called out for "Wicked Games" as Tula returned for a reprise. The reply astounded me the most: "we don't play covers". After about an hour of more or less the same the band bowed for their audience leaving some of them disappointed.
Tula wasn't really bad, but they just couldn't live up to my expectations. Especially not playing their breakthrough cover-song. The Woohoo's and cheering from their German fans in a crowd of just about 25 people made it even worse. Especially as they woohoo'd during some of the songs. Hopefully they'll manage to get a real good producer to salvage their songs otherwise they are prone to fade away. The band probably would reply: whatever.
Live-performance: 4/6
Music-Wow!-factor: 1/6
The night started of with the support-act singer-songwriter Stuart Mavis (NL). Interesting choice yet very entertaining with some good songs in Dutch and English. About half an hour later the headliner of the night took the stage. Tula began their performance with a low-fi yet strong intro. A great start of the night! Unfortunately after about 3 songs it all sounded alike. Surely the melodies, drums, bass were not the same but the first impression of "Nice!" faded away quite soon. The singer couldn't change the wearing of as also in the vocal-parts there were many repeats in lines and vocal-manners. In the end it got on my nerves. But they could still score bonus-points. The crowd called out for "Wicked Games" as Tula returned for a reprise. The reply astounded me the most: "we don't play covers". After about an hour of more or less the same the band bowed for their audience leaving some of them disappointed.
Tula wasn't really bad, but they just couldn't live up to my expectations. Especially not playing their breakthrough cover-song. The Woohoo's and cheering from their German fans in a crowd of just about 25 people made it even worse. Especially as they woohoo'd during some of the songs. Hopefully they'll manage to get a real good producer to salvage their songs otherwise they are prone to fade away. The band probably would reply: whatever.
Live-performance: 4/6
Music-Wow!-factor: 1/6
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