The Wytches

Headliner: The Wytches

Venue: the chameleon Nottingham

Date: 01 march 14

Support: kagoule,blonde bunny

So here go gig number 7 of 2014!

Tonight was the 3rd time for me seeing the Wytches, I first saw them at tramlines in 2013 when they made a right racket. This time it was at the chameleon in Nottingham a venue with a real house party feeling, it's basically in the attic of some building, with a few rugs and things on the floor and even the remains of a fire place on one side.

Anyway first up kagoule, I have seen them once before and I really like their sound it's kind of intense yet mellow and they sound like a band that should be on dischord records which is a big compliment from my point of view.

The problem with these kind of house party esq shows is that there is no stage, the band are on the same level as you so if you are not right at the front or a giraffe you get to see feck all.

Next up blonde bunny, one word awful next....

The Wytches a three piece band who look fairly innocent but boy can they make a racket. The sound coming from the guitar is crazy, distorted, fuzzy brilliance. Riffs that can rip your face of a plenty. A great band with a great future. Unfortunately they didn't do that cover of ace of base that I saw on YouTube.

Will be seeing them again in a few weeks supporting pulled apart by horses at the musician in Leicester..... Now that is gonna be mental!

Soulfly

Headliner: soulfly

Venue: rock city Nottingham

Date: 28 feb 2014

Support: savage messiah

Well it was time for gig number 6 of 2014 this time soulfly, now this was a kind of out of my comfort zone type of moment for as I may like a multitude of music genres but metal isn't one of them, so seeing soulfly with max cavalera from sepultura was possibly the equivalent of being thrown in at the deep end.

First up tonight was a band called savage messiah it's was a mere 30 seconds after walking into rock city basement that they were all making the "metal sign" i am sure some people might love this but the leather waistcoats and iron maiden tribute band sound really wasn't my thing.

Well it was time for soulfly in a small compact sell out at rock city basement. As I have already said metal isn't my thing and I don't consider it to be heavy either not while Dillinger escape plan are still roaming the earth I'm not sure anything else could be classed as heavy.

Anyway soulfly came on and the crowd were loving it "metal signs" filled the air. I didn't really know many of the songs and which ones i did were old sepultura songs like refuse/resist, territory and roooooots bloooody roooooots as I believe it's pronounced.

And I not sure what hootie and the blowfish did to annoy max (apart from being awful) with the song no, with the lyrics no worship, no bullsh1t, no motherf**kin hootie and the blowfish. Which did make me chuckle.

I not sure what it says about my music taste when well the music from soulfly isn't hard enough or fast enough for me and a bit to slow, give me a DEP show anyway.

No doubting max is a legend in the scene and to be honest it wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be

Radkey

Headliner: Radkey

Venue: rock city Nottingham

Date: 25/02/2014

Support: lyger, turbogeist

So gig number 5 of 2014 was here this time Radkey, three brothers from Missouri who I first heard of on jools holland last year when they played out here in my head, part ramones, part bad brains all brilliant so I was buzzin for tonight's show.

First up lyger not much to say really basically because I can't remember they seemed ok at the time though.

Next up turbogeist who contain non other than mick Jagger's son as the frontman and they rocked, and made a surprisingly good racket.

Time for Radkey their set was almost perfection, perfectly in time, perfect vocals and were ace! Even with a bonus cover of digging the grave by faith no more thrown into the mix.

It's obvious these guys are going places and I don't reckon the next show in Nottingham will be as empty as this one.