Sunday night outing to The Legendary 100 Club with Simon but without Pete who's buying wedding rings and humping coal onto a barge. Old school activities hey. And that's what me and Simon get.
Workin' Man Noise Unit are what they say on the tin. Noisy and a pretty tight unit. Pretty damn good in fact. At times they get heavy rock and at others punky. Maybe a little pub rock too. Early punk cemented by them playing The Stooges / Damned I Feel Alright. A great start and I'm looking forward to a bit of boogie...
Endless Boogie are, again, what they say on the tin. I was looking forward to a bit of boogie not a half hour of one song that seems to be about seeing Kiss at a kite festival and shaving off your eyebrows and getting bottled for it? Then a list of other bands the singer's seen such as AC/DC. Hardly a run down of legends that you'd expect at the 100 Club. I don't see Gene Simmons or Angus Young hanging on the walls. Anyway what is a pretty groovy sound gets tedious and maybe it's cos it's a Sunday night but I'm not in the mood for shoegazing 70s rock that at times verges on prog. Pub rock it ain't. After the first song the guitarist dryly says "I think we got time for one more". Would be funny if it wasn't. The bassist doesn't even bother to turn to see the audience - he spends the whole match looking at the back wall. The one with no photos on. Maybe it is Gene from Kiss. We tough it out and although some tunes are better than others, i.e. under 10 minutes, they don't grab us where it counts and we pop out into the Oxford Street air faintly disappointed.
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| They're working, they're men, they're noisy, they're a unit |
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| They play boogie. Endlessly. |
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| Hmmm, maybe it's a supergroup with Gene Simmons moonlighting and Joey Ramone dug up. Sounds like he's slowed down a bit... |
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