iLL2Okay, maybe there’s a trend going on here.  Super Junky Monkey’s members all wore their band tee during their Red Marquee concert this morning.  Following suit, iLL’s keyboardist and drummer both looked snazzy in “iLL” t-shirts too.  A definite plus of flaunting your own merch is that it saves fans the hassle of waiting in the often long lines to see what each group is selling at FRF ’10.

The sun was out and the temperature was high during iLL’s Friday afternoon showing at Field Of Heaven.  Led by former Supercar front man Koji Nakamura, the quartet had a very loose vibe on stage and had little difficulty getting the laidback FOH masses to sway along to their songs.  Handling guitar and vocal duties, when not singing Nakamura was a man of few words simply commenting “It’s hot, isn’t it?” at different points during iLL’s 50-minute set.

The first half of the gig had a strong rock and post-punk feel to it, while the back end was a tad experimental and more interesting.  The group went off on a bit of a spacey, psych-tinged tangent which would have been heightened and definitely way more ‘ill had they been tapped to play FOH after dark when the area is illuminated mainly by mesmerizing mirror balls and candles.

iLL photo report here.

*Photo by 佐俣美幸