The Temperance Movement was anything but what the name implies as it brought old school rock and roll to the Ob March 7.
Though the crowd was mostly middle aged and tired, it didn’t seem to affect the band before the show. The lack of eager anticipation was surprising, considering the amount of success the members of The Temperance Movement have seen in other bands; excitement would have been expected. The demographic and energy of the crowd did not match this new exciting band, but The Temperance Movement shook life into old bones.
The Temperance Movement are a British blues rock band who’s members have all played in other bands that have seen success, but for them The Temperance Movement is something entirely different.
“The best part of being in this band is that we’ve all built it from the ground up, its our baby.” said bassist Nick Fyffe, “I’ve been in some other bands that have been pretty big and I’ve had a great experience with them but, you know, when you’re touring with your own band and you watch it grow from nothing up to, you know, the level that it’s got to, it’s really exciting and it’s so much more important to us.”
The moment the band exploded into their first song, the crowd came to life. People danced with energy, an energy that was not representative of their age but was representative of the music.
The band was passionate and played with finesse, every song from the first to the last was delivered with a rock and roll attitude that was contagious.
It was evident that the band cares about the music they’ve made together and the energy and emotion it was played with seeped from the stage to consume the audience. The band was perfectly in sync and interacted with each other naturally, they got the audience involved and did;t let the smaller size of the crowd detract from their passion or excitement for the music.
“The best part (of playing a live show) is getting a reaction from the crowd.” said Fyffe “When you feel like the crowd are into it, like you feed off each other. So you come out and if the crowd are into it, it spurs you on which spurs them on and you can create the perfect storm. Theres nothing like playing a smaller gig where your right up close to people and you can really feel the energy.”