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 The Bettina Motive


The Bettina Motive - New Bands tent, Friday 11.50am

They come on stage to the strains of 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad' and for a moment you think that Moby has decided to delight us with an appearance. But then the band around the look-alike strike up a gloriously loose, untutored, angular noise, and you find yourself glad that you were wrong.

It seems unfair to make lazy comparisons, but you want to know how they sound, and as the jarring rhythms of Radiohead's 'Pyramid Song' float into the ether, it seems as good a place to start as any. It's as if Radiohead skipped the indie dirge of 'Pablo Honey' and the mini-epics of 'The Bends' to arrive straight at the ethereal beauty of 'OK Computer'.

They tread the line of sounding under-rehearsed perfectly, people so in tune with each other as to make it sound spontaneous, they've either put a lot of work into this, or they're just incredibly lucky. And as the singer tells us 'we forgot to care', you find out which.

There are new bands who try to demand that you like them, who bend over backwards to make the nervous banter between songs endear you enough to want to buy them a pint. The Bettina Motive don't bother. They know they don't have to.

What is the Bettina Motive? It's enough.


David Something.




Updated: 30th June 2002 00:36


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