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Gary Moore - Vocals
The Garage, London
29/05/2016
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Most bands can only dream of the opportunities that have
landed at the feet of Dundee’s The Mirror Trap since they formed just two years
ago. After meeting at Music College the five-piece quickly got to work on their
debut album Stay Young and it wasn’t
long before they were spotted by a music legend and whisked off to the other
side of the world. As you do.
That legend was no other than Placebo’s Brian Molko who,
after catching them in their home town, offered The Mirror Trap a support slot
on their Trans-Siberian train tour to Russia.
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Ben Doherty - Bass
The Garage, London
29/05/2016
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It’s the stuff that dreams are made of but, when you see how
talented The Mirror Trap are it stops being surprising that for them it was
real life. That’s what we learnt when we caught the band at Islington’s Garage
in May at the end of their latest UK tour.
A mix of modern indie-rock and its 90s counterpart, The
Mirror Trap have an exciting rock ‘n’ roll sound but dressed up to the nines,
inciting disco dancing both in the crowd and on the stage.
Vocals from Gary Moore gave an intensely catchy vibe to the
performance, delivering the ultimate in brain-worm lyrics with American Dreams and Toys, both from that debut album.
When not charming with his vocal prowess he’s doing it with his whippy
stage banter.
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Paul Markie - Guitar
The Garage, London
29/05/2016
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But new track Piranhas
took pride and place in the set list, from the new album Simulations. Recorded at the infamous
Karma Studios in Thailand, this track stays true to the powerful style that The
Mirror Trap have carved for themselves but with an even more forceful vibe to
it. It’s performed with all of the steaminess that it deserves and that melody
stays with you for long after the set is finished.
To see The Mirror Trap on a small stage like this one feels
like a blessing. It doesn’t take too much imagination to envisage them on a
much bigger platform with much more production. When that inevitably happens,
count us in.
