Author: Team Uber

The Blackheart Orchestra/Audrey’s Dance/Foxpalmer – Salford, Sacred Trinity Church – 16 June 2023

Another scorching hot day beckons in a rather more tranquil gig for DJ Astrocreep, in the shape of The Blackheart Orchestra, with a couple of supports. The setting of an old chapel, still seemingly in use, made for incredible acoustics and hopefully harked at what should be a quite melodic and enjoyable gig. It has to be said, the chapel itself felt warmer inside than out and it also felt quite sacrilegious for the big lad to be ordering Dark Fruits cider when in there, but hey – that’s all part of the rock n roll!

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St Valentine – ‘St Valentine’ (20th Century Music/Vanity Music Group)

St Valentine are one of those bands who epitomize the late ’80s attitude of the Sunset Strip. A quick peck on the cheek at the front of the stage as the lead singer professes his undying love for you. An equally quick Frenchie and grope of your arse in the backstage toilets, followed by a faster than lightning dose of “how’s your father” in the back alley before disappearing onto the tour bus and into the nightfall, never to be seen again. Well, only to re-emerge 30 years later to remind us of that promise they left hanging in the air all those decades ago…

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