Dirty Laundry @ The Bedroom, Surfers Paradise (08/06/08)
I think the Queen should have booked Dirty Laundry for a Royal command performance on her birthday, as she missed out! Lucky for me The Bedroom secured them for what turned out to be a phat Queen’s Birthday Sunday. That rush everyone gets in the seconds before Dirty Laundry take over the stage and JJ Styles confiscates the console was happening again.
Deja vu is good when it is like this, as every time I have caught Dirty Laundry at The Bedroom they compound their greatness. A club swarming with bouncing punters as Lee Lee, Dirty Laundry’s front lady took the mic was the ignition to an explosive set that made full use of the club’s sound and lighting potential. Doused in cascading light, Dirty Laundry beamed out their hybrid collage of songs that featured several old skool and current must have tracks all refined into one seamless blend. JJ Styles complements the live instruments, while he is on the decks and steaming up the Pioneer sampler and EFX 1000 MK2 effects unit. Overlayed to this is a piercing saxophone that really makes Dirty Laundry’s sound sexy on the whole.
Their music puts all in a trance state of happiness as there was not a bad vibe in the room, and it was at capacity most of the night with those who came wanting a DL fix. One thing that is pleasing is to speak with punters who are in awe on discovery of Dirty Laundry. Just like the old ‘Kiss Army’, the Dirty Laundry Army is growing and evident on every performance. Lee Lee sported “those pants” which even her band members had to mention on the close of the set and as the set ended, the crew thanked the crowd once again.
Queen’s Birthday day 2008 will go down as ‘Dirty Sunday’. Joey Mojo then closed for Dirty Laundry and unleashed a thumping set that had punters bouncing hard until close.
