Japanese Voyeurs take the stage as main support
to the mighty Black Spiders here to a decent turn
out of people here in Wolverhampton tonight. With
their previous tour bringing such high quality
acts such as Viking Skull and Turbowolf, Japanese
Voyeurs have a high job of matching up to these
past supports. To keep it sweet and simple; they
do not fulfil my expectations tonight. When they
stepped out onto the stage I had quite high hopes
with the female vocalist as bands like Halestorm
have proved women can do a tremendous good job
in the rock scene but what we actually get is
some really high pitched vocals that get quite
whiney at some points. I’ve listened to
a few of their tracks online in which the music
doesn’t seem too bad but live it seems to
be all over the place and is quite bad for a band
that is trying to get recognition to not sound
at their best when they have a chance to gain
some new fans. They could have salvaged it by
putting on a show but the singer kept turning
her back to the crowd and whilst she does indeed
have a nice bottom it’s not the best idea
for someone who’s fronting a band to not
address the crowd and to turn away. Little crowd
interaction as well; they just seem to be in our
town to just get it over with and with this performance
I won’t be watching them. Sorry guys but
you definitely need to do better than this to
impress me.
Black Spiders tonight are on full form here and
from all 3 times I’ve seen them this has
to be the best they’ve played. They are
everything that they have always said they wanted
to be; straight up full force rock and roll. Their
back catalogue is full of bounce, chunky dirty
riffs and some terrific concepts. During their
first song “Si, El Diablo” they give
their trademark chant “Everyone stick your
middle fingers in the air and repeat after me,
‘FUCK YOU BLACK SPIDERS’” repeated
3 times to get the desired reaction that they
wanted. They have a massive sense of humour “It’s
our guitarist’s birthday today! 12 years
old and has the ability to grow a beard like that”
big laughs and a lot of fun. They throw out some
great songs from their debut album Sons of the
North like “KISS Tried to Kill Me”,
“St Peter”, “Medusa’s
Eyes”, “Just Like a Woman” and
some tracks from previous EP’s before ending
with a tremendous closer “What Goods a Rock
Without a Roll?”. The crowd haven’t
been that great tonight but then again both times
I’ve seen them before have been supporting
Airbourne to enormous crowds all of which are
liquored up and ready to party. Bit of a shame
in that sense but I still had a great time head
banging and dancing around. Excited to see where
the band will go this year as they seem to have
begun their claim to fame and this rock has given
no signs that it’s going to cease to roll
anytime soon.
Japanese Voyeurs – 2/5
Black Spiders – 4/5
Review By James Webb
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