Dirty Laundry @ The Bedroom, Surfers Paradise (02/03/08)
What is Dirty Laundry’s secret? With incredible live performances behind them and a mass of successful albums and remixes under their belt, I had to wonder what the special riddle to their success was all about. I set about finding out what is so infectious about Dirty Laundry on their Sunday night return to The Bedroom in Surfers Paradise.
Watching the act get revved up prior to their show, it dawned on me they are just like any other person who lives for the music. The only difference is that Dirty Laundry’s perspective takes in both sides of the dance floor. They want to be in the crowd as much as they want to lead them. I watched Lee Lee hit the boosters backstage, dancing up a frenzy minutes before the
whole band took to the stage. Undoubtedly, she is one funky lady with the moves and the voice to prove it.
Lee Lee is in possession of one sultry, yet mighty powerful voice and the when you add the funky beats and percussion to the mix with the boys on the decks, the voodoo starts. Punters look like they are going to explode half way through the set as they are over hyped from stomping the dance floor. Part of Dirty Laundry’s magic is the way they can fuse four songs into the time it takes an average radio edit track to play – but with that extra three dimensional and personable edge that radio can never quite muster.
Some of the stand out cover fusion by Dirty Laundry on Sunday night included Funk Phenomena 2k by Armand Van Helden, Renegade Master by Wildchild & Fatboy Slim as well as Pump up the Jam by Technotronic. And they Laundry never fail in setting the crowd on edge; the artists never stopping in giving out the love – and then getting it right back like an everflowing conduit. The secret lies in their never ending power and energy. Like a massive perpetual motion machine, Dirty Laundry are skilled in feeding off the crowd whilst knowing how to give it back; keeping the flow a continuous force and always influencing the rise and falls in their connection with the crowd.
Certainly a difficult task for any artist to achieve, Dirty Laundry are the masters of flow. And this evening at Bedroom, such power was there for all to see.
