 
 I arrived at the venue at 8 thinking I was an
hour late and would be seeing bands straight away.
Instead, I walked into a almost empty room to
some chill out music, I would have thought I was
in the wrong venue if it wasn’t for the
words ‘Mona Lisa’ taped to the amps
at the back of the stage. It was a strange feeling
being at a rock gig with one of the most happening
bands of the moment playing but the room is quiet
and I feel like I’m actually going to be
in for a slow night.
It turned out I was on time and that the doors
where actually at 8 not 7, so I was in for a wait
until the first band who I thought was going to
be a band called Rase but again I was wrong and
it turned out to be a guy and his guitar called
Geordie Blake. Geordie gets on stage and jumps
into his indie folk sound with slight tones of
rock into the mix. His wispy gravelly voice fits
the guitar but its missing something.... his band
Shana Tova. He plays a half hour set that just
sounds like the same song over and over. The audience
isn’t really into it except for a few people
who turn out to be the next support band.
Black Heart Generator, get on stage and thrash
about to lively angsty indie rock. The guitars
and bass are heavily distorted with very tinny
cymbals which are loud enough to blow your ears
out. They let on that both them and Geordie where
asked to cover earlier that day which makes sense
why the greatly energetic Turbowolf are not playing.
No-one says why the two original support bands
are not here and it’s such a disappoint
that their not as the two new supports just don’t
do it for me, they alienate the audience with
private jokes but to be fair they have come in
at the last minute so you can’t expect to
be blown away.
 Whatever has made the two supports not show up
hasn’t affected Dinosaur Pile Up as they’re
here and ready to rock. They get on stage and
instantly get a reaction with everyone moving
closer to the stage. The crowd has built up and
the once dead room has a decent amount of people
but is no-where near to being full, which is surprising
but as a sign on their amps say ‘Sunday
nights are boring’. The audience are not
fully rocking out just a nice head nod throughout
their set, the band on the other hand, the bassist
especially, get into the gig and mosh around and
remind me of an early Ash, full of energy and
passion. They play a good set and surprisingly
play their currently radio heavy song ‘Mona
Lisa’ early into their set, which still
doesn’t get the crowd motivated enough to
jump around.
All in all it was a disappointing night, with
Dinosaur Pile Up doing just enough to make it
enjoyable. I do think that on another night all
the bands would rock your socks off but unfortunately
it wasn’t tonight.
Dinosaur Pile-Up – 3.5/5
Black Heart Generator– 2.5/5
Review By James Daly
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