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The Drones is one of those bands I got into accidentally - and possibly one of the only live acts that impressed me more than the group I went to see. I had become somewhat taken with The Devastations, (another Australian band) through Myspace, waited and looked for their CD for ages before it actually came out domestically. So I went to see them at The Casbah, here in San Diego, playing with The Drones. Prior to the show, I briefly checked them out online and they seemed promising. As it turned out, The Drones were headlining for this particular stretch of the tour and played a longer set than they had. The Devastations were good, but The Drones were clearly a better live act if not due to anything else than the energy that is more possible because there are fewer ballad-type songs. The singer was extremely passionate, and wildly feral. FERAL. (more…)