Bromley band perform in Plymouth for the second time in 2 nights

Taken by me

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.

Van Susans are set to release their debut album; ‘Paused In the Moment’ on May 27^th; a year and six days after their EP; ‘We Could Be Scenery’ was made public. Since then Van Susans have been updating their facebook with news and updates of video releases, processes of recording and mixing and other band information including shows they’re playing in. So everyone needs to put May 27^th 2012 in their diary as important because we want to prove to the lovely lads of Bromley band, Van Susans that everything they’re doing is for a good cause and will end up in them being signed to a major label in the near future.