What do apple boxes, bright unfitted clothes, dirty clown wigs, and happenstance choreographed nuance dances have in common? It must be a Fischerspooner show! Casey Spooner stands above the crowd and his own dancers trying to proclaim a reason for being there as he lip syncs to his own songs. Dark in the corner of the stage, wearing what seems to be a homeless man’s clown wig, Warren Fischer bobs his head out of sync with the music as he casually turns knobs and pushes buttons.
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Fischerspooner
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 Entertainment
Art
The Avalon
Hollywood, CA
April 23, 2009
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It seems what was once the explosion of electroclash and dirty pop electronica, with Fischerspooner’s “#1” album in 2000, has become somewhat of a passing phase as the bands new album “Entertainment” fails to really stay up to date or focus on anything but the band’s own narcissism. Sadly, the same goes for their live performance.
There is something fantastic about the way that the band creates loud bass driven poppy beats that make everyone want to get up out of their chair, but the look and freshman-like quality of the performance brought everyone in the crowd down to a level where all they could do was stand and stare, not sure what they were seeing…you know, like that train wreck thing people always talk about.
The ego driven Spooner saunters around onstage acting like a diva, lip synching into an attached microphone playing to himself more than to the crowd. He stares at himself in the rotating mirrors with his angelic halo lamp atop his head and telling the crowd to buy t-shirts, coffee mugs, CDs, and…his Mom? But the dancers made a good attempt and became one of the main parts of the show I watched. They made graceful moves across the stage, crawled on the floor, jumped in the air, and made goofy and meaningful faces throughout the entire show.
Some of the best moments of the show was one of their new songs “Money Can’t Dance”, as this song seemed to pump up the volume of the muted sound in the venue. The hard beats, the raging violins, the lights flashing, and the dancers having seizures on stage really brought the energy up in the house. “Emerge” was of course the height of the performance where Spooner takes more than three steps on the stage and works the choreographed dance with his group.
It seems to me that Fischerspooner could be one of the most entertaining live shows to see, and they had all the aspects to put on a mind blowing performance. But there’s something that they just haven’t put in to bring the show together as a cohesive event. If they could find a way to be more memorable and more relevant in this new era of sound, this could turn out to be a must see. I was expecting to have my brain melted with face peeling bass sounds and a colorful and well made stage show, but it all just turned up a little bit flat.
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