On "Mistaken Identity," over a live band playing vaguely sinister funk, Method Man starts off a rattling sixteen-bar verse with an open acknowledgment of who's on the playing field now: "Whoever push me like Pusha T, I push back.
Most are composed of ordinary-looking suburban or small-town 20-to-30-year-olds playing vaguely hip-hop- or electronica-influenced hard rock that sounds fresh but not necessarily new.
Now you may have assumed like myself, that the practice of playing vaguely gothic/rock/metal bands in any kind of public setting died out with lightly washed pairs of Lee Pipes, but it appears that more backwoods settings (where a fair chunk of this wedding gathering hailed from) have proven to be one of the final safe harbors of this surely irredeemable genre.
"Valley Sketch," the piece by Mr. Lake that opened the set, felt like a warm-up, as Ms. Allen played vague and tentative chords over a strangely plodding march tempo.
PLAYLIST DJ Cato, a veteran of the original Double Seven and one of the current regulars, played vaguely Brazilian-sounding chill-out tracks (again, that late '90s feel) with a dash of hip-hop and cool '80s ("Tainted Love," "I Can't Go for That").
She appeared again with Mount - they were close friends - in the retirement home situation comedy You're Only Young Twice (1977), playing the vague and dithery Cissie Lupin.
A local band called the Tin Men were playing a vaguely familiar cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song".
There were drifting sequences with indistinct rhythm and two guitars playing entwined, vaguely pentatonic passages; these sounded like the Grateful Dead's "space" passages.
And playing the vaguely pan-tribal Raphael in "The Brave," it seems, gave him a chance to inhabit that piece of his identity, albeit with a suffocating lack of subtlety.
But in the key sequences, pitting our man Pitt (playing a vaguely defined United Nations investigator/world saver) against some superfast and rabidly hungry swarms of unhumanity, the stakes are high and the excitement's there and the results, as previously stated, are messy but fairly entertaining.
