 Eddie
Spaghetti, the first acoustic solo performer of
the night, and probable joint head liner too.
First thing he did, was to thank all 30 or so
people that bothered to turn up tonight. This
American performer, had some simple tunes that
sounded pretty good at times while being abit
slow for my liking but it worked well, the set
was a mix of some what downers of songs and some
funny songs too that had a fair bit of profanity
in them. Eddie made a joke about arriving late,
about 5 minutes before he had to go on, there
was alot of banter between him and the crowd,
and he played pretty much any of his songs that
were shouted out to him. at the end of every song
he said Cha cha cha, to signal to the crowd to
go 'nuts', this for me got old pretty fast. He
played a johnny cash cover called 'what do i care',
that he sang to his wife in the crowd. He got
the crowd to sing along to 'Killer weed', Killer
weed is exactly what we need, it sounded pretty
good. This would seem a pretty difficult act to
follow, as most of the crowd were fans and had
a pretty good time too.
 Ricky Warick, is a man ive never heard of before,
but after his opening two songs, its plain to
see that this guy while fairly good on the guitar,
he has the gift of gab, and is funny as hell,
while regaling the crowd in between songs like
'Church of paranoia', Raining Down, new album
title track, 'Belfast Confetti', with his tour
stories, which included bands like Def Leppard
and Motorhead. His Guitar playing is simple, but
competent, the tunes don't really seem to have
any catchy moments, where you go i like that riff,
the song lyrics at times are depressing, but its
lifted with his tour tales on the road. One of
the things i like about his songs, that they have
highs and lows, not just a wall of sound, his
songs have depth, but it is at times overly loud.
He even threw in a Motorhead cover, Ace of Spades,
minus the solo. His songs seem to whiz by, which
can be a good thing, as the crowd had been there
for quite a while for only two acts, im a pretty
warm room. Overall he played a solid set, for
a crowd which was mainly made up of hardcore fans,
that probably knew all the words.for me its not
my thing, but i had a fairly so so time.
4/5
Eddie Spaghetti - 4/5
Ricky Warwick - 4/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
