If you are standing outdoors at the beginning of March sipping cold lager then it must be another punk rock night at the Wagon & Horses.
Tonight was a special night being the debut gig by Spirit Bomb but more on that later.
The evening kicked off with Complete Dysfunction, with a slightly different line up to the one I’d seen last September. Despite a few on stage sound problems they put in a good performance with their politically tinged songs.
Next up were Angry Itch and these guys quite literally are going places. 2014 has got off to a busy start, already playing gigs in Birmingham and further afield in Portsmouth and Derby and sharing stages with the likes of 2 Sick Monkeys and Paranoid Visions and other local bands such as Rotunda and Brassick. They have been picking up some extremely positive live reviews even featuring on John Robb’s Louder Than War blog and the word is spreading so much so that they have been invited to play on the new band stage at the Rebellion festival in Blackpool In August.
And tonight’s performance was excellent. The songs come at you fast and frenetically but have a sing along quality that pulls you in then grabs you by the jugular, refusing to let up until the trio have expended every last drop of energy out of them. If they are this on form come August, then the Rebellion weekend is going to get off to one hell of a start.
Although not actually headlining the evening was all about Spirit Bomb, tonight was their debut gig and the entry fee included a copy of their Killer in Your Stereo e.p. (and it's a corker). Made up from members of local bands Drongos For Europe, The Liarbilitys and Vincent and the One Pots. They entered the stage like a band of bad mother fuckers and from the opening notes they sounded like they meant it.
A large and enthusiastic crowd saw them plough through a set of high octane punk rock n roll blending elements of their other bands and in their own words they wanted 'to make the kind of music we love, with passion, power, rock 'n' roll with a punk rock soul" and on tonight's performance they succeeded. Exciting times ahead with Spirit Bomb.
Unfortunately I had to dash for the last train so left to the opening strains of the Nerks but hope to catch them soon.
Tonight really highlighted that there is a really great punk scene in Birmingham at the moment with regular gigs at a number of venues with lots of newish band such as Angry Itch and Brassick mixing it with the old guard like GBH and Drongos for Europe. If you need any further proof check out how many Birmingham bands are on the line up for Rebellion and on tonight's performance it's gonna be epic. Bring on the Birmingham Invasion!
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritBomb4
https://www.facebook.com/AngryItch
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Nerks/328504867170942?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/ChrisHillPhotographyuk
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