Gr8 Fish: Who Are The Mysterines? 30Jun20

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Who Are The Mysterines? 30Jun20

The Mysterines don’t have a full debut album yet but they’ll likely produce many albums - this will really be a band to watch. They are a Liverpool band combining punk-grunge rock with punchy bass lines and relentless drum beats. They are fronted by Lia Metcalfe, sometimes on lead and always singing. Bass licks are from George Favager wailing on his Rickenbacker and drum underpinnings are from Chrissy Moore. Dark and unhinged but with quite some polish, passion and poise, Metcalfe is fusing genres, writing angst and singing lead vocals, appearing all the while an accomplished rock star. The Mysterines are backed by a lot of practice; it all works very well here. I can't find the 2018 recordings or footage.

They have a 4-song self-published EP from 2019 called Take Control but are dropping new music and videos swiftly in 2020. "Not many" people are listening or watching, but they’re gonna explode. They need a lead guitarist I sense, and I've seen footage and heard songs with and without. There is some wicked stuff as a trio but as a full guitar band they are better - sometimes not tight enough but whatever.

The Mysterines covered Arctic Monkeys well but sound more like Led Zeppelin, and they seem to be managing their 18 month rollout well with strong "Official Vids" channel and several well-produced videos, tons of cam footage and some good pro-media-produced live songs. Folks are raving about the live shows in the UK. The recent videos are pretty edgy and good. Here are just some live YouTube samples; they are chronological and the best recordings (media-pro) with video are 1 (BTW, this is just the opening number so watch the others on BBC Intro too), 4 and 6.