 Well
traffic was dire tonight as the autumn nights
start to close in and the train i was supposed
to catch ran 20 minutes late, i get to the venue
and yet again im left off the guest, Wolverhampton
must not like me much, fun times, but again im
prepared packing the tour mangers name and number,
so i finally get in.
First up, well second anyway for everyone else
were the generic rock band Maycomb, their first
track just seemed to go on forever, and the rest
of there set seemed very repetitive as the song
structure just seemed repeated no variation at
all. The guitarist seemed to spend a lot of the
gig hiding in the corner. The vocalist seemed
very droll his voice was pretty plain. The only
part of the set i enjoyed was the last track that
they played it was more melodic than the rest
of the set so it ended well after the rest of
the set was a bit on the boring side.
Next up were Junkyard morning another rock band
from these parts, well there set was rather downbeat
or serious, nothing really light hearted or playful
in the tunes that they were playing, the singer
was another guy whos voice was a tad on the boring
side, no real range to speak. One of the better
points in the set was the solos by the lead guitarists,
they were pretty decent, and was the only real
highlight in the songs as they were pretty drab
affairs.
 Main Support act were Kyoto Drive, a pop punk
band Ive shot before earlier this year, one of
the things i picked up on was the lyrics and how
they were sung, must have missed me last time
round, there set didn't seem to sound any different
though and sounds like they played the same set
as they did in may as there were no new songs
to speak of, yet again though there's nothing
in the set that really grabs my attention, atleast
there as energetic as ever well one of them was
the rest well maybe it was a night to relax and
take it a tad easy.
Flood of Red our fearless editior is a bit of
a fan, so i went into the gig expecting good things
an i have to say they didn't disappoint, first
off the stage was small to begin with, and seeing
that there was 6 of the up there, the stage looked
a tad smaller. Musically there's a lot going on,
drums, two guitars bass guitar, vocals and synth/keyboards,
it all seemed to fit well together, nothing sounded
muddled, although i could hear some of the individual
instruments as the mix may have been slightly
off, but it still sounded good, there's lots of
melodies and they are not the heaviest band tonight,
apparently the openers were, the only thing lacking
was the range in the song it was one constant
volume if it varied, then the songs could of sounded
better, the vocals were the best i heard all night,
some decent range, and the drumming was pretty
decent also. One thing i noticed was all the guitarists
an the synth player were all head banging in unison,
looked a bit lame as it seemed a tad rehearsed,
but never mind. The synth player also did a bit
of drumming just wacking in time with drummer
when the songs needed a bit more umph! Overall
it was a pretty decent set and they played to
a small crowd of about 25, who seemed to enjoy
it also.
Maycomb 3/5
Junkyard Morning 3/5
Kyoto Drive 3/5
Flood Of Red 4/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
