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Bristol Anston Rooms is a venue I had never been
to until this evening and a venue that I wont
be going back to in a hurry. The venue itself
is nice and spacious just like an assembly hall
at a school but the downside of the venue is the
staff, because the venue is part of Bristol University
and the Student Union, the majority of the staff
are arrogant students who aren’t there because
they like live music but more for the power of
telling people what they can and can’t do
and where they can and can’t go.
So ten minutes after finishing interviewing Rob
from The Vincent Black Shadow, the band are due
to take the stage for their thirty minute support
slot for Kosheen, so I head to the main room with
a beer in one hand and a camera in the other.
The band soon take the stage with Cassandra taking
centre position and the Kirkham brothers positioned
around her with Anthony sat behind on the drums,
Rob to the right on guitar and Chris to the left
on Bass.
The whole band seem to have their own individual
look and stage performance with guitarist Rob,
dressed in a shirt and trousers with lightning
bolts covering his guitar strap which seems to
suit Rob with his energetic fast as lightning
movements on stage with fancy footwork and killer
guitar playing. Bassist, Chris Kirkham has a more
chilled out approach on stage and is more about
the image dressed head to toe in black with chains
hanging from his trousers and a black spiky piece
around his neck and a top hat with long dark black
hair dangling down topping off his appearance.
Drummer Anthony is a killer on the drums spinning
his drum sticks around in his hands at every opportunity
and looks as cool as his drumming dressed in a
black shirt with a tribal symbol and big sunglasses
covering his face. Vocalist Cassandra Ford looks
quite dwarfed on stage next to the Kirkham brothers
but looks every bit the front woman with her figure
hugging dress, black and white stripy socks and
high heeled boots giving her that extra bit of
height and her vocals sounding as good and if
not better than they do on the bands album.
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band play through a handful of hits from their
debut album 'Fears In The Water'. 'Metro' was
the one song most of the crowd knew and loved
with the band putting maximum effort in. Other
tracks the band played were 'Bullets On The Tracks',
'Valentine' and a few others whilst finishing
with a great double whammy of the vocally strong
'Broken' where Cassandra's vocals really shined.
The final song of the night was the bands album
title track 'Fear's In The Water' which the band
totally rocked out to with Rob stomping away across
his side of the stage, Chris moving more than
he has the whole show stepping on the speakers
staring down at the crowd, Anthony giving his
drums a good bashing and Cassandra hitting every
note with her powerful voice.
Overall, a great set that was totally full of
energy and went down pretty well with the crowd.
Although, I was a little disappointed that The
Vincent Black Shadow only got a thirty minute
slot, lets hope they hurry up and come back over
for a well deserved headline tour.
4/5
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Cassandra Ford (Vocals)
Rob Kirkham (Guitar)
Anthony Kirkham (Drums)
Chris Kirkham (Bass) |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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The
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