Wolf people are An English 4 peace bluesy rock
band, they exude an quite confidence in there
playing not really pushing the abilities to the
max with technicality, but playing what looks
easy and sounds even better as the sound oozes
easy to listen to riffs within the songs, even
if they do tend to drag a bit you don't really
mind as it isn't a boring listen. Its also good
to listen to a band that has various levels of
quite parts other than being at just one level
of loud there songs have a dry feel to them with
a few layers to keep your interest, but the catchyness
always shines through as in the 3rd song they
play. For once it's good to see the hare an hounds
packed out for 2 bands. Would certainly have fitted
in with tha bands that emerged in the late 60s/early
70s. Overall its a solid performance, and I certainly
would mind getting some of there material and
seeing them again.
Black Mountain are A five piece Canadian rock
band, after a rather dry start with an annoyingly
long intro and opening track, Radiant, which I
assume is part of the intro. The 2nd song, Wilderness,
is when the band kicked nicely into life, I may
note that I've never heard of this band before,
so I didn't know what to expect, The third has
a good chugging riff which seems to drown the
vocals making them murky and hard to make out,
but they do seem a tad on the plain side there
were also calls from the crowd to have the vocals
turned up and from where I was standing I think
this went unanswered. The drumming is solid if
a tad simple as is the bass playing. The guitar
work is pretty decent but I think maybe a second
guitarist would add another layer that would work
well but I Think the synth player does good in
my imaginary void!( if that didn't make any sense,
they had an actual Synth player!) The songs they
played wasnt too bad, they played quite a few
songs which included Buried, Stay free, Let Spirits,
Stormy and set closer and Set highlight Don't
Run. Overall its was a decent enough set, but
lacking good presence on stage, but again, it
was good see that they packed out the venue something
I don't normally see in small venues from bands
from abroad.
Black Mountain - 4/5
Wolf People - 4/5
Review By Robetr Lawrence
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