Spycatcher are a 5 piece rock band, there
not all that bad, I think the singer is trying
too hard to be Dave Grohl as he sings a bit like
him at time, their music is pretty catchy and
lively playing it a bit safe I'd say, it's not
bad but it's nothing new either, the guitar work
is pretty good some decent riffs and he drumming
is fairly solid, they seem relaxed up on stage
and do move about a bit which is nice to see,
it's a shame the crowd isn't showing signs of
life, Also interesting is the vocalist picking
up a guitar from a song, they do enough in their
short set to leave a solid account of themselves,
and maybe win a few of the crowd over.
 Defeater are up next with their particular brand
of hardcore punk, and oddly they open with the
vocalist playing an acoustic guitar and signing
on his own, not exactly the electro start I was
hoping for, it was a good song by a bit of an
damp towel to start there set with. Any way after
a song and a half there set finally came to life,
their songs aren't all that bad but again nothing
really original about what the band is doing,
it's mostly by the numbers fast noisy with screamed/clean
vocals, and distorted/clean guitar, there is a
bit of variety in the guitar sound as one song
is mostly clean guitars but other than that it
feels mostly by the numbers, it's not bad but
it's not exactly attention grabbing either but
at least the crowd seem more awake than last time
and they seem to have a few fans here tonight
to sing along to a few of their songs.
Trash Talk are the main support tonight, their
another hardcore punk band, there more doom noise
merchants if you ask me, it's lively and exciting
to watch but the music is like having teeth extracted,
not exactly the most listenable of bands of I'm
honest, there's a song in there somewhere but
a lot of the songs sound the same, same guitar
tone just doomy and noisy in fact most of the
songs sound the same, which makes it boring the
vocal are shockingly bad, and the band take turns
in getting right in the crowds faces, good see
but the music could be so much more with the sort
of aggression their giving.
 Every
Time I Die are the final punk rock band of the
night, their sound is somewhat heavier with a
slight southern sound to the guitar tone, I'll
be honest while there exciting to watch their
a bit of a Nightmare to shoot and their opening
songs apocalypse now and then, bored stiff and
ebolarama, while lively and really getting the
crowd going I don't really find the songs that
engaging, I enjoy he change of guitar sound from
the previous bands but the songs I just don't
find all that interesting. The performance is
pretty good there a tight band to say he least
while still going nuts on stage, the guitar work
while good not all that exciting nothing really
grabbing my attention, but the crowd are loving
every hot sweaty minute of it. They continue with
the likes of no son of mine, marvellous slut,
she's my Rushmore. I have to say the set does
get somewhat better, how could it not I guess
it's a case of going with it even if it isn't
my cup o tea. Overall after a bit of an indifferent
start but it ended strongly, not bad I think with
maybe playing a few different songs to what they
played could have been much better.
Spycatcher 3/5
Defeater 3/5
Trash Talk 2/5
Every Time I Die 4/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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