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Accidentally Was Released

Went to see Frente at the Annandale pub Friday night. Hopefully people reading this are at least 20 and remember Frente as a unique Australian band who peaked in the early 90s with their hits "Ordinary Angels", "Accidentally Kelly Street" and the beautiful acoustic version of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle". The story goes that they struggled to maintain commercial success and credibility by the mid 90s because even though they were still writing some great songs, people would only associate them with AKS, which was a particularly hyper-happy, upbeat cutesty tune, complete with a film clip that was drench in bold fluoro colours - far more than what was fashionable even in that colourful period. In fact, The Late Show (or The Panel as they're now known) came up with the spoof "Accidentally Was Released", making easy fun of the film clip and their strange jumpings about and how all their props were really big.

Regardless, this was a good concert and Angie Hart still has a beautiful, angelic voice. Frente didn't do a great deal on stage other than sing and play but it was worth the twenty bucks. One very interesting omission in their repertoire however was - yup, you guessed it - Accidentally Kelly Street. This was even after several crowd members screamed to hear this song. Apparently this was a one-off reunion night and Frente members will go their own separate ways again, with Hart to continue fronting her new band Splendid and appear in Joss Whedon shows like Buffy and Firefly.

The omission does lead me to believe that that song Accidentally Was Released after all...

QP

posted by Sam @ Tuesday, January 25, 2005