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audience on maniacal adventure
Music Review
Photo by Jorja Smith - Photography Editor
i Antique, mixing DJing and live vocals in her
ay at The Orange Peel
Photo by Jorja Smith - Photography Editor
Top: Tommy “Sidecar” Cappel, drummer for Beats Antique, rocks out during
Thursday’s performance.
Bottom: David Satori, member of Beats Antique, plays guitar with a bow.
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isting life or un-
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ludience member
onto the stage to participate in the twisted
circus, which soon turned into an all-oiit
dark dubstep freak show, complete with
maniacal laughter and cats meowing in the
background. .
Bv this point, the audience was m a
frenzy but some fans wondered when they
would’see the artworks they submitted for
a contest Beats Antique ran a few weeks
before This came soon after, and the stage
transformed from a variety show of sorts
into an otherworldly hellish place made of
distorted and monstrous faces with gaping
mouths created by fans. As the audience
flew through the faces, Cappel and Satori
played “Pandora’s Box.”
But what would a journey be without
meeting the devil? We can thank Les Clay-
pool for playing that most important role.
Ill came the dark twangs of Claypool’s bass,
and as if that wasn’t enough, his creepy and
distorted voice.
“Beezlebub is my name!” he repeated
in an increasingly warped and frightening
tone.
“Beezlebub” proved to be one of the au
dience’s favorite tracks from the night, as
scarily humorous as it was.
Toward the very end of the journey, the
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audience began to see the light at the end
of the tunnel, and Beats Antique helped re
joice with the playing of some recognizable
old favorites such as “Egyptic” from their
2010 album Blind Threshold. The audience
danced as if they’d seen their home for the
first time after embarking on a treacherous
and deadly adventure.
Unfortunately, that adventure soon came
to an end, and only once the house lights
came up and the stage lights went down did
the audience remember they hadn’t actually
been to all those mystical and magical plac
es, they were at The Orange Peel all along.