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Having previously performed a full set the night before at Plymouth University’s Student Union
with a reasonable turn out, tonight was a bit of a let down, especially for a
band that have showcased themselves in front of hundreds of people. Only seven
people turned up to Cuba to watch
their mini acoustic show.
However, even with the extreme lack of advertisement (on the
day via the band’s facebook page) Olly
Andrews, Eddie Dullaway and Rob Dullaway still did a pretty god job
considering factors such as the acoustic show being poorly advertised and the
3/5 of the band not knowing anyone from the Plymouth area. Tonight Van Susans showed that size really
doesn’t matter, it’s just how you deal with the lack of that counts. Van Susans entertained the pocket-sized
crowd with random, out of the blue covers by artists such as 50 Cent, Elvis and One Direction,
as well as a few acoustic versions of their own songs; “Get Up, Get Out”,
“Disappear”, “Bones” and “Fireworks”, which were all
fantastic in acoustic. The One Direction track the band decided to perform was “One
Thing”, which being present for their rehearsal, seems to be Olly’s
favourite song ever! However, even when he had the lyrics right next to him,
easy to read, Olly still couldn’t get to grips with the lyrics; someone needs
to get practising J
Even with the terrible crowd gather tonight, Van Susans made do with what they had
and they could have been like ‘oh we can’t be assed with playing tonight
because no one’s showed at all’ but they didn’t, which shows they value the
people coming down to Cuba tonight.
The three members that performed tonight are amazingly lovely and seem to
welcome everyone with open arms, also the guys know how to have a laugh, which
is shown when they performed a cover of “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, which has to be said, it
may actually have been better compared to the original.
