Date: Fri 13-Feb-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: SHANNO

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Goldfinger-Feldmann-Junction

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(rev Goldfinger performance @Tuxedo Junction)

Concert Review--

Lots Of Energy, A Bit Of Everything Else

(with photo)

BY SHANNON HICKS

DANBURY -- You have to love a band that can do everything from covering the

music of others, to switch-hitting in the middle of a show, all while playing

with the speed of the Ramones and an updated style of the Bosstones (with the

horn section and style, but without the malaise displayed in Monday's

performance at EPSY Awards). You gotta love Goldfinger.

Tuesday night, Goldfinger put the cap on a four-band show at Tuxedo Junction,

coming on a little later than planned (after a last-minute addition put a

third set on the stage at 10 pm), but performing no less enthusiastically. In

fact, the late addition seemed to be friends of Goldfinger members, in a

younger mode of musicianship, with members of the unnamed band reappearing

during the headliner's set later on.

The foursome is touring to support its sophomore effort, Hang-Ups . The

75-minute show on February 10 presented material from Hang-Ups and its

predecessor, Goldfinger , divided about evenly. Among the songs from the first

album, the set list included "Here in Your Bedroom" and "Mable," while

"Superman" and "This Lonely Place," both from the second release, were also

played. What didn't seem to matter to the majority of the audience, however,

was whether any of the songs played had been officially released or not: the

crowd that came out to see Goldfinger was a group who knew the band's songs

inside and out.

True to form, the band also threw in some zingers by others, adapted to

Goldfinger style. There was "Rio," first recorded by Duran Duran in that

long-ago era of the Eighties, and Chumba Wumba's "Tubthumping," from about

last week. During the latter, drummer Dangerous Darren Pfeiffer and vocalist

John Feldmann did an about-face, with Pfeiffer getting out from behind the

drums to sing the song and Feldmann taking a seat, but not a rest.

Feldmann, along with bassist Simon Williams and guitarist Charlie Paulson,

didn't stop for more than a few seconds from the beginning of the show until

the end. That's what Goldfinger shows are all about, he told The Bee last

week.

"Our shows are all about energy," Feldmann said over the phone from Winnepeg.

The band has just finished a leg of dates in Canada, having been on the road

for the last eight months straight. "We love what we do ... Personally, I

rarely get road burn-out, and I think we're doing OK now."

Judging by the turnout and the response on Tuesday, the band is definitely

doing OK. It was a young crowd -- the band's audience age seems to be

late-teens to early 20s, so the show was all ages, with very restricted

alcohol sales -- but a very enthusiastic crowd.