First night out with my old gigging buddy Si for a while – Old Street way. Him and smooth faced work colleague. Very representative of the audience ages. Seemed to be 20 – 30 or 40 – 50. All the 30’s at home with babies?
Abe Vigoda up first. Lively and good sound – reminded me of UK garage punk (check out Farewell To The Roxy 1978). Tho they’re west coast USA.
Next up London’s very own west coast grunge group Male Bonding. Mostly very good and the crowd were pleased but descended into prog rock at times – not easy with 2 guitars and a drum kit but they managed it.
Headliners (another USA west coast) No Age. Again, went down very well with all age groups and I could see why. Thrashy shouty excitment (2 of em at least). Guitarist could’ve been in the Ramones especially his 1-2-3-4 shouted intros – but sounded more like The Who riffs. Drummer and singer could’ve bashed with the best of the Roxy crowd – and given the old punks a run for their money with his vocals. Strangely uninterested synth guy who looked like he’d stumbled out of a US cop drama and rushed off the stage before the last song had ended. Mooched back on for an encore whilst the other 2 went ape. Ended up with the drummer staying on for a bit of shouting, crowd surfing and then twiddling the synth knobs to show the other guy how it’s done.
All in all competent but for some reason wasn’t enthralled. Maybe my age?
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