secret fireworks @ glasgowbury: lafaro
There are some things you can be sure of in this world: birth, death, and Dave and Herb Magee headbanging at exactly the same speed and time. LaFaro trotted out a typically dirty set full of swearing, contempt for "trendy people", contempt for "ugly people" and inappropriate jokes as well as some damn fine music.
Alan Lynn seems content to just go crazy when he sits in front of a drum kit, while the Magees and Jonny Black share vocal duties on "Leningrad". It's pretty furious stuff with the bassline chugging at a mile a minute, but the vocals are simply inaudible. You simply can't make out the words . "Chopper" is one of the harshest tracks I've ever heard, technical brilliance displayed by each and every band member at some point within the song. I got the feeling that they nearly wrote this song just so each of them could have some sort of solo. It's trashy, loud and proud.
Tuppenny Nudger is played by LaFaro, almost reluctantly due to the band's hatred of "trendy people". The same trendy people that run, buy and support AU, a magazine that recently voted Tuppenny Nudger the best track of the past five years on the local scene. It may be a boring riff, but it gets the crowd dancing and for once you can actually hear the nice harmonies from the second verse on. The band play a new track which starts with a soft melodic rock opening which leaves the crowd slightly confused: have LaFaro somehow turned into Snow Patrol? Thankfully
the introduction ends and it turns into another loud, brash, incomprehensible song.
The song of the set has to be "Girl Is A Drummer" which is an uptempo rock number with a great chorus and some top notch bass work from Herb. It has a guitar riff that reminds me of the Strokes but darker and dirtier. It's the sort of stuff you'll happily dance in the mud to, which we're all doing. Tony Wright from ASIWYFA comes onto the stage to help out with vocals on a track to much applause, and we're reminded he can actually sing as well as play a mean guitar.
High point: I was expecting it to be "Tuppenny Nudger" but it was "Girl Is A Drummer" simply for that awesome chorus.
Low point: Either when the Michael Jackson jokes were cracked or in the intro to a couple of the songs where the band start slagging off people. A few friends of mine who hadn't seen the band before thought they were more than a little condescending at times and that in the end distracts from the good music on display.
Final point: A great show as per usual from a band releasing their debut album in the next few months.
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