Tonight I headed to the Fleece in Bristol
for the first time in many years to watch everyone’s
favourite rising hardcore superstars D.R.U.G.S
and wow what a show they put on tonight.
D.R.U.G.S took to the stage at 10.15pm and they
played a short but solid set where everything
was spot on from the opening chants of “We
all know we all know right now you’re the
only thing you thing you talk about” from
their track ‘The Only Thing You Talk about’
right until the final bit of machine gun drumming
and frantic sing-a-long chants of ‘If You
Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is’.
 Throughout the set D.R.U.G.S played a solid 10
tracks which happened to be the majority of their
debut album played in no particular order and
as soon as they took to the stage you could see
the chemistry between the members of D.R.U.G.S
and the fact that they have gelled together so
well in such a short amount of time, their pace
on stage was fast and furious and their between
song banter was great with Craig Owens making
many jokes with the crowd and even stating that
we should all strip and have a massive orgy due
to the sheer heat in the venue.
 On Record the debut album from D.R.U.G.S is currently
one of my favourite albums’s to be released
throughout 2011 and it was good to see the band
play the songs from the album in such a pure and
passionate way, the highlights from the set were
‘Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Warm’ which
managed to get the whole of the venue on their
feet bouncing up and down singing word for word
to perfection, the other main highlight from the
set was when they played their latest single ‘Sex
Life’ midway through the set with Craig
Owens making an announcement saying this is for
all the selfish people in the world before blasting
into the song and screaming the chorus “If
you had a sex life, a sex life would you even
worry about mine” in such a meaningful way.
 Overall D.R.U.G.S may well of played a short
40minute set to a mere 80 people tonight but after
all it was a warm up for their biggest UK appearance
to date at this weekend’s Download Festival,
the set was fun and energetic with bassist Adam
Russell even finding time to rock out on top of
the venues bar and even a select few members of
the crowd doing their best to get closer to their
hero’s by climbing up the massive beams
situated near the stage in the venue.
This surely is the start of something massive
for D.R.U.G.S in not only the UK but the whole
world.
4/5
Review By Trigger |
