Glasvegas at the Zodiac - 5th June 2008
Well, I've been well and truly hoist by my own petard tonight, but more of that later. Tonight's venue was again the Zodiac, for Glasvegas - yet another band that I had seen a few months earlier at the Jericho Tavern. They were utterly fantastic that night.
For once we had actually managed to get there in good time, and it was still pretty empty. Rather wonderfully, we got to listen to Little Fish on the PA (see my Supergrass post). Support tonight was provided by The Winchell Riots and Thomas Tantrum. Both were rather good, but the audience seemed a little lacklustre. We bagged our place right at the front (hooray! I avoid having the 6ft 2 man standing right in front of me) and waited for the dry ice to start.
And start it did. We listened to Moon River and then the band came on, the guitars began to swirl and we were off. All dressed in black, the band exuded effortless cool and this amazing cacophony just filled the room. Musically, it's as if the Jesus and Mary Chain has jumped in the DeLorean and gone back to the late 1950s/early 1960s. I love the way that some of the songs reach a point where you think it's over and then it just kicks off again. James Allan has an amazing voice, all the better for singing in his own native accent (the Proclaimers this ain't tho); it just suits the whole feel of the music. And Rab Allan's backing vocals complement perfectly and just add to the whole build up. They don't go in for a massive amount of stage banter, which is fine by me (half the time you can never understand what any of the bands are saying anyway) - they don't need to. I recognised most of the songs that they played last time and again, Daddy's Gone was glorious. The album is going to be fantastic and I can't wait for it to come out.
There was only one drawback - it was all over far too soon and they didn't play an encore. So, given my previous comments, I was well and truly hoist by my own petard. I would have loved it if they had come on again. Actually, I would have loved them just to have played longer. But this way, I went off wanting so much more. I can't wait for them to come back.
For once we had actually managed to get there in good time, and it was still pretty empty. Rather wonderfully, we got to listen to Little Fish on the PA (see my Supergrass post). Support tonight was provided by The Winchell Riots and Thomas Tantrum. Both were rather good, but the audience seemed a little lacklustre. We bagged our place right at the front (hooray! I avoid having the 6ft 2 man standing right in front of me) and waited for the dry ice to start.
And start it did. We listened to Moon River and then the band came on, the guitars began to swirl and we were off. All dressed in black, the band exuded effortless cool and this amazing cacophony just filled the room. Musically, it's as if the Jesus and Mary Chain has jumped in the DeLorean and gone back to the late 1950s/early 1960s. I love the way that some of the songs reach a point where you think it's over and then it just kicks off again. James Allan has an amazing voice, all the better for singing in his own native accent (the Proclaimers this ain't tho); it just suits the whole feel of the music. And Rab Allan's backing vocals complement perfectly and just add to the whole build up. They don't go in for a massive amount of stage banter, which is fine by me (half the time you can never understand what any of the bands are saying anyway) - they don't need to. I recognised most of the songs that they played last time and again, Daddy's Gone was glorious. The album is going to be fantastic and I can't wait for it to come out.
There was only one drawback - it was all over far too soon and they didn't play an encore. So, given my previous comments, I was well and truly hoist by my own petard. I would have loved it if they had come on again. Actually, I would have loved them just to have played longer. But this way, I went off wanting so much more. I can't wait for them to come back.
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