Three to see: Harbour, Saturday's Kids, Évariste Galois
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| 11:20 UK time, Friday, 20 November 2009
Some new rocking bands for your enjoyment. Not tips for 2010... yet!
This is a strange time of year where journos start pontificating about the year just gone, and predicting emptily about the future. The NME in front of me has even gone for the best albums of the last decade... ulp! I will inevitably start doing the same soon enough, as for a brief time over Christmas it is a slight relief that the silly hamster wheel of the music industry does slow down briefly, and we get a chance to sit supping Mulled Wine in our furry armchairs and think about what's gone.
Until that time, I'd like to introduce three new furious bands that I've come across of late. These bands have helped remind me of the beauty of some brutal punk rock, that music is about energy, fun, loudness, no-nonsense pedal to the metal, full throttle 'ngraaaaaaah'.
This is a strange time of year where journos start pontificating about the year just gone, and predicting emptily about the future. The NME in front of me has even gone for the best albums of the last decade... ulp! I will inevitably start doing the same soon enough, as for a brief time over Christmas it is a slight relief that the silly hamster wheel of the music industry does slow down briefly, and we get a chance to sit supping Mulled Wine in our furry armchairs and think about what's gone.
Until that time, I'd like to introduce three new furious bands that I've come across of late. These bands have helped remind me of the beauty of some brutal punk rock, that music is about energy, fun, loudness, no-nonsense pedal to the metal, full throttle 'ngraaaaaaah'.
Harbour
I've seen Harbour a couple of times now, and it took me a while to get it into my head what they were about. Simple, forceful, hard, but like Gallows they have some sweet underlying tunes.
Saturday's Kids
I'll be watching Saturday's Kids for the first time this week, and I'm looking forward to catching something of the energy of this five-piece Newport band in the live arena. Their recordings and demos are urgent, youthful, and punk.
"Saturday's Kids are warming like a lighter under the heart. Their rabid flailing has toughened and coagulated since the last time I saw them: what then was spirited but unfocussed is now a weighty mix of yowling punk, squally no wave and messy brutality. Even when they sound like four people playing different songs at the same time, they at least make them good songs, and that's all you need." (Joy Collective)
Évariste Galois
Probably the youngest of the three. Evariste Galois aka Matt, Owen, Dave, have a musical maturity beyond their years. Determined, aggressive, loud, rushed, but charming all the same.
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I've seen Harbour a couple of times now, and it took me a while to get it into my head what they were about. Simple, forceful, hard, but like Gallows they have some sweet underlying tunes.
Saturday's Kids
I'll be watching Saturday's Kids for the first time this week, and I'm looking forward to catching something of the energy of this five-piece Newport band in the live arena. Their recordings and demos are urgent, youthful, and punk.
"Saturday's Kids are warming like a lighter under the heart. Their rabid flailing has toughened and coagulated since the last time I saw them: what then was spirited but unfocussed is now a weighty mix of yowling punk, squally no wave and messy brutality. Even when they sound like four people playing different songs at the same time, they at least make them good songs, and that's all you need." (Joy Collective)
Évariste Galois
Probably the youngest of the three. Evariste Galois aka Matt, Owen, Dave, have a musical maturity beyond their years. Determined, aggressive, loud, rushed, but charming all the same.
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