Indafusion / Morphon / North Atlantic Oscillation - Henry's Cellar Bar, October 14

With Cayto cancelling, it's left to the support bands to carry the rock baton tonight at Henry's. North Atlantic Oscillation (3 Skinnys) open with a set of intelligent rock that oscillates between intricate musicality and full-on thrashing. Consisting of a drummer and a single guitarist/laptop-programmer, they play sophisticated Filter-esque rock that is impressive although evidently demanding live. Support act #2 are Morphon (2 Skinnys), a trio of guitar, keys and drums (bass is so last year) who really fail to illicit any kind of reaction with their nondescript, cod-atmospheric metal. Tonight's surrogate headliners, Indafusion (2 Skinnys), attract a rowdy band of devotees to the fray, who mosh and air-strum to every chord, falling onstage and even crowd-surfing (some feat in this venue). Yet their music doesn't match the mania, consisting as it does of well-played but cringingly-hackneyed Aerosmith guitars and unstructured, haphazard platitudes. For those not signed up to the Indafusion fan-club then, this night started with the Cayto no-show news and didn't rapidly improve. [Nick Mitchell]