Confidence Man playing the O2 Arena with New Order, Sept 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews)
Confidence Man supported New Order in London on September 29th.
Confidence Man‘s stint on the road with New Order is one of the more higher profile parts of the live work behind last year’s well-received Tilt album – praised around these parts too as a, ‘throwback to the times when tomorrow just meant a chance to do more of the same’:
“Tilt, appropriately, was conceived during back-to-ours sessions as the sun was coming up, with playback that paid back on crappy Bluetooth speakers to heighten the DIY vibe, like karaoke but good.”
Just in case it hasn’t fully registered, the Brisbane quartet are not taking things too seriously. On the deliciously funky house of What I Like for example, Bones declares, ‘Living life on the wild side just like a bear/We’re alive – we’re just animals with beautiful hair’, yet you just know that he means it.
“Fast forward to Toy Boy – a self-confessed ‘J-Lo slut jam’ – and the bottom line is just that, as Planet gushes, ‘With an ass like that there’s no hesitation’, to her boo, whilst a jumping piano line seems to be erm, coming, directly from the back seat of her limo.”
