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"NME Gets It Wrong Again Shock!" While everyone's favourite trendy music weekly is busy slavering over the tired, tame and ever so slightly jingoistic London scene building up around some outdated notion of an "Albion", whatever the hell that's supposed to be, they seem to have ignored that out here in the provinces we're quite happily making a bloody good musical riot of our own ta very much.
Take tonight's openers Bam Bam Francs who crash through a superbly frenetic 30-minute set of pure panic gas rock recalling "Nurse"-era Therapy? with snarled vocals, frenetic drumming and pickup-melting guitar work. Good stuff.
Better still though are Vicious Cabaret who are, to all intents and purposes, the Hives' evil twins with the cockiness replaced by sheer nastiness. Scowling through their set, these four suited and booted lads churn out a truly...well, vicious racket that's one half Mary Chain and one half Pistols. It's a truly ferocious, feral and fantastic thing.
Some evil people in this world will suggest that you listen to the Libertines or Razorlight. Get yourself a copy of Vicious Cabaret's CD, sharpen it and use it as a frisbee to decapitate them.
Review and pic by Andy James
