 First
band of the evening is Me, they are a 4 piece
alt rock band from Australia, and they sound like
they are influenced by Muse not bad role models
but without all the crazy sound effects. There
songs are pretty good, off beat at times with
some decent catchy riffs, with the vocalist switching
between a guitar and keyboard to provide a few
synth effects. Some of the songs seem to follow
the same pattern, which leads to some songs sounding
rather similar, thankfully this only happens on
a few songs, the rest of the set is fairly varied.
The vocalist must be a big Matt Bellamy fan as
he sings somewhat like him, so if you looking
for a muse-esq band you should look at Me.
 Lower
than Atlantis are a UK 4 piece punk rock band,
I have to say there's nothing remarkable about
this band other than maybe there marketability
to teenage girls, as all I can hear is screams
of girls from the crowd, I'm guessing some fans
are gonna bugger off as soon as their done playing
their particular brand of bland punk rock, everything
is by the numbers yet the crowd eats it up, I
really don't see the appeal the songs aren't all
that catchy, the riffs are dull, the whole things
smacks of manufactured blandness. I'm pretty sure
fans like to be able to see the bands as well
as listen to them, the lighting was awful and
that's coming from being a crowd member and not
a lowly tog. I don't think Twin Atlantic will
have any problem out shining these guys. The covers
medley they did was a bit pants too.
 Twin
Atlantic are a band I've seen a few times from
pub venues now to a big stage at the Wulfrun Hall,
they open there set with a non electrifying number
called, Yes, I was Drunk, they pick things up
with the next song, Time for you to stand up,
any of the opening 5 songs which also included
Dremember and 8 Days, apart from the opener they
used, would have been better choices.
Dreamember had a holiday feel to it and Apocalyptic
Revenge was much more to my liking a bit of a
dirty riff. Their set is full of fast paced songs,
I think in their earlier days they were labelled
perhaps harshly as a lot like Biffy Clyro, but
from the songs they played tonight seems to have
distanced themselves somewhat, you can hear it
in some of their older songs but the newer stuff
is where they have found their own voice.
 Their
a pretty lively band and there lighting set up
reminds me of Biffy from a few years back lots
of blue light and difficult to shoot in, but them
being just as lively is good to watch.
They continue on with the likes of Ghost of Eddie,
Edit me, What is Light?, LightSpeed and Lost ones,
So far it’s been a really superb tight set,
with the band bouncing around the stage, this
is by far the best I've seen them play, guess
all they needed was a big stage.
 They
close out the main set with 3 excellent songs,
which are Human After All which I thought at first
when I saw the set list was a daft punk cover,
Wonder sleeps here and we want better man.
After a quick break, they come back on to cheers
with Your turning into john Wayne which was a
acoustic solo effort by Sam, the rest of the band
then carry on with Crash land and the two superb
set closers Make a beast of myself and Free, which
is a really great song to close the night with,
overall a really good set from an up and coming
band which I’m sure that they will move
on up to the next level of venues.
Me 3/5
Lower Than Atlantis 1/5
Twin Atlantic 4/5
Review By Robert Lawrence
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