First and only support band to our are
Black spiders, a hard rock band I've see a few
times with varying performances, and tonight’s
performance is pretty damn Good, they burn right
through their opening songs, opening with stay
down, kiss tied to kill me, stick it, after these
fast hard rocking songs, they take things down
with the slow and heavy st Peter. They get fast
and heavy again wolves, before launching in to
the ultra catchy just like a woman. They close
there set with a proper head banger, blood of
the kings. A Hard rocking performance tonight
from the ultimate road band, they are always on
tour somewhere.
Volbeat a hard rock band with a slight country
twang to them. There songs really have something
to them, the drum beat always has a bouncy rhythm
to them as do most of the guitar riffs in their
songs really, there’s no real variation
in the guitar sound, which causes some of the
songs to sound very similar. They open there set
with the human instrument, Guitar Gangsters &
Cadillac Blood both really good fast past bouncy
songs to get the crowd going. These are  followed
by heaven nor hell, A Moment Forever and Hallelujah
Goat, these songs sort of sound similar the dirge
of the song sound does get grating after a while,
the songs are good but the actual sound of them
kind of ruins, there's plenty of head nodding
going on around me, obviously there fans, but
the songs seem very simplistic in structure, the
only liveliness seems to come from the drumming
and vocals which are pretty damn decent, but there
not one for moving about much on stage pretty
boring to watch if I'm honest plus it gets a bit
boring hearing bands dribble on about Birmingham's
past bands. They do a pretty decent cover of the
Johnny cash’s sad mans tongue, giving it
of oomph, and getting the Crowd going with a bit
of singing along. They do a bit of prating about
with playing some very short bad covers. They
then continue their dirge with the likes of new
day and radio girl, rebel monster and a decent
set closer still counting. After a short break
they come back on with warrior, fallen, river
queen, a dusty Springfield cover I only want to
be with you, another decent cover and set closer
pool of blood, with a bit of slayer smacked on
the end to closer the night out completely. It's
not a bad set but for the guitar sound, and one
less cover dropped from the encore, others than
that not bad.
Black Spiders – 4/5
Volbeat – 4.5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
