With Clues being so fresh, having just released their first album, their level of notoriety wasn't quite up there - but the tent was packed anyway. Okay that may have had a lot to do with the giant rainstorm, fully-loaded with directly-overhead lightning, that was tearing across the island, nevertheless Clues tore it up too and gave these people a noisy (though structured) show. To obtain sounds such as those found on the interesting self-titled release the five members moved about the stage to play a variety of instruments. Especially busy was the lone female who worked a bow on the opening track, drummed on several others, played the bass, and bashed an already banged-up sheet of tin that was hanging along with bells and various other metal objects meant for percussion. They got through a solid selection of songs including a splendid rendition of You Have My Eyes Now sung by the male who most often played drums. Impressively they managed to generate most of the sounds found on the album in this setting - and what made this even more exceptional was, as we found out later, that due to the storm and a power surge the entire set had been played without anything in their monitors! On the final track the female was at it once again, this time screaming into what looked to be the speaker end of a telephone receiver but must have been a vocoder of sorts. It was dirty, and loud, and rather spectacular!
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