Honeyman
Birmingham Quo Vadis
Honeyman are tight, no doubt about it. As session musicians, one or all of these people might go far. The singer particularly works well as a frontman; confident, assured, all those things one might expect of a young, male, red-blooded wannabe rockster.
Yes, they sound a bit like Kula Shaker. Yes, they sound a bit like the Black Crowes. Yes, you can kind of tell they’ve probably heard Reef or Free at some point in their lives. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Well, probably yes. You see, Honeyman are good and that’s probably half the problem - they make music which sounds how they think it should sound rather than allowing many new ideas to filter through. Songs which have a quiet bit then a loud bit then a quiet bit again before tailing off in to one of a variety of stock-rock endings do not , to my mind, provide quite enough excitement in a world so full of well, possibility. I mean, come on, you could be anything - why stick to one method, trusty as it may be?
If Honeyman are happy to be rock-steady then fine, I guess there’s probably enough room in the musical world for them and their “baby’s” “Ooo-oohs” and the like. But if they decide to experiment a little more, who knows? Choices, choices. Over to you, then.
