Photo: SuppliedĪt the annual Battle of the Ad Bands, a kind of adults-only Smokefree Rockquest headlined by bands consisting solely of those who work in media or advertising industries, the motto for the night’s ridiculously compelling four-hour show was “anything goes”. The Pixels work their way through a saxed-up set of covers at Battle of the Ad Bands. Their mustachioed front man grinned like he’d just gotten away with a crime. “You’re a sax offender,” declared one of three impressed judges after their set. Onto a good thing, possibly inspired by Kenny G, they then repeated the trick for a similarly jazzed-up cover of MGMT’s ‘Kids’. As The Pixels, they’d promised to provide as much variety as an op-shop record bin and they delivered, turning the uber-grungy UK guitar anthem into a yacht rock opus. It’s highly likely no one has ever listened to that song and thought to themselves, “This could be improved with a lot more saxophone”.īut that’s exactly what a group of dapper lads from media agency OMD decided to include in the opening song of their brief set on a drizzly Thursday night in Auckland. The Arctic Monkeys saw no need to include a lengthy saxophone solo in ‘Do I Wanna Know?’, their slow-burn 2013 rocker with a killer chorus. ‘This is the best gig we’ve ever played! It’s also the first gig we’ve ever played!’
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