Another trip to Manchester sees our travelling gigaholoc take in Cage The Elephant for the first time, accompanied by Chicago’s Post Animal and SWMRS from California, in Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse, also his first time at the venue. Train delays are once again the norm, though the big lad managed to arrive just as Post Animal took to the stage…
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This one is a bit difficult for John B to review. There are aspects that he really likes and many that he finds wanting. Most of his issues are thematic and have less to do with the technical skill or performance, but he will get into what he was less than enthusiastic about in the second half of the review. First, it is only fair that he goes over the things I did like. Starting with the music…
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Starbenders first caught Jase Walker’s attention during their tour supporting Alice in Chains back in 2018 after some videos popped up of their energetic live performances. Admittedly he didn’t look too far into them at this point as 2018 was a bit of a rollercoaster when it came to his music tastes so a lot of music kind of fell by the wayside in favour of exploring very narrow avenues for new bands. The following year Starbenders got signed to Sumerian who happen to have a large number of bands that our boy listesn to on a regular basis on their roster and he follows them on Instagram so by way of that he started regularly seeing clips of Starbenders and eventually built a bigger interest in them in the build up to their latest album, ‘Love Potions’…
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Definitely, and defiantly, one of the coolest, and most talented – not to say successful – Scandinavian melodic rock acts of the past decade or so, it would seem surprising that H.E.A.T would append the epithet ‘II’ to the title of their latest album. But, then, they do view this, their latest opus, as something of a rebirth after a somewhat stagnant period, at least creatively. It’s the first album to be produced by the band themselves, thus seeing them totally in charge of their own destinies, and has them declaring that this is them going back to their roots: “This is what we would sound like if we made a debut album in 2019, hence the title”.
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Another cold wet February day in Manchester sees Jase Walker returning back to a venue that by all rights should be charging him rent by now. Rebellion tonight hosts Counterparts, supported by Can’t Swim, Chamber and Static Dress which makes for a chunky lineup for a Tuesday night show, and the massive queue outside the venue shows that this one will be a busy one…
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