Live in the Lounge: Sports Dreams & showponi

Sports Dreams  

Caitlin (Showponi musician)  

Following the recent Sports Dreams gig in the Massey Manawatū Student Lounge, I realised that this was a difficult performance to describe. If I were to try, I would draw attention to the damply reverbed drums that provided a rigid framework for the swirling, kaleidoscopic synth layers. This synth work then blended effortlessly with wide shoegaze-esque guitar tones. That formed a backbone for strong, earnest lyricism, and one of the most subtly powerful vocal performances I have ever seen live. While this is certainly an attempt, I don’t think I could ever do justice to describing Sports Dreams. To describe Sports Dreams is to describe feelings that escape my command of the English language, to describe a part of yourself you left on the roadside and can’t get back, to describe the jersey that is stained and moth-eaten that you would rather die than part with.  
 

showponi 

Words by Fraser Running (Sports Dreams musician) 

Showponi was supposed to play before us but ended up playing last, which was good because it meant we could park up and bliss out. While the beats and pitch-shifted vocals were sick, my (Fraser’s) favourite parts were the happy accident outros where all the delays and left over loops were bleeding all over each other. In the Radio Control Live Session which was filmed during this set, it may look like I was asleep, but I was just astral-planing with showponi as my guide. Thank you, showponi.