 Kentucky
Rockers Black Stone Cherry are currently in the
UK on their biggest headline tour to date which
sees them play sold out shows at 14 cities and
venues across the UK and I headed down to Bristol
Academy and witnessed one hell of sweaty cramped
yet amazing rock and roll show.
Black Stone cherry took to the stage dead on 9pm
and from the moment they took to the stage the
Academy erupted with pure energy the crowd was
going mad moshing and singing-a-long word for
word to pretty much every song whilst the band
spent the best part of one and a half hours playing
pure rock and roll with a few acoustic covers
thrown in for good measures.
Ben Wells and Jon Lawhon spent the majority of
the set running back and forth across the stage
whilst rocking out with big arse guitar riffs
and bass lines, Ben Wells happened to be the most
energetic out of the two doing jumps and kicks
at pretty much every opportunity he had, John
Fred Young spent more time standing up bashing
his drums than he did sitting down and he truly
showed his skills tonight and by the end of his
jaw dropping drum solo I was left feeling a little
sorry for his kit as he proper hit it hard and
constant whilst delivering beautiful sounds to
our ears. Singer Chris Robinson spent a lot of
time talking  to
the crowd about various different things but the
most amazing speech he made was when he announced
to the crowd that he found out the day before
that he is going to be a dad this was met with
loud screams as the acoustic guitars opened ‘Things
My Father Said’ which the crowd went on
and sung the song word for word for Chris who
looked totally amazed that he didn’t have
to lay down any vocals at all.
There were some proper amazing songs featured
throughout the set such as ‘Change’,
‘Blind man’, ‘In My Blood’
but it was songs such as ‘White Trash Millionaire’
and ‘Blame It On The Boom-Boom’ which
got the crowd moving the most tonight.
 After
tonight’s performance it is safe to say
that Black Stone Cherry are one step closer to
being one of the best straight up rock and roll
bands in the world, give them a few years and
they will easily be headlining the second stage
at Download or Sonisphere festival, tonight’s
show was amazing in every way and I for one could
not keep my eyes off the band especially John
Fred Young as he simply puts so many drummers
to shame.
5/5
Review By Trigger
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