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Ice Cream Social + Cape Of Good Hope + Virile + The Small Print

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Thursday, 09 September 2010

Bivouac, Lincoln

03 February 2007

 

Review by Pete

 

 

Despite a poor showing on the door, all four bands who played the Biv tonight got up there and gave it all they've got to maximum appreciation from those few present and each other. 

 

That helps big time. 

 

Biv 3rd FebThere's no getting away from the fact that when the room is heaving with smiley juvenile organisms up for a good night out it fuels some top sounds from bands who just love to rise to the occasion.  Seb, Hannah and Chris from The Small Print took whatever positive vibe was in the air though and kicked off with quality music that could easily be way too classy for a town like this, let alone a venue like this!  It's serious without ever becoming conceited, trusting the audience to make a connection.  It's head music and seems to be developing a baroque magnificence that would demand heavy repeat playing as a CD at home. 

 

Virile, up from playing to several hundred Mancunians on Thursday were sensational.  To hear them in such circumstances felt like a privilege.  Much as anyone would have felt being invited along to a happening at Andy Warhol's Factory in the sixties to hear Velvet Underground play.  The band is cohesive and all work smoothly to achieve the same wall of peppy grunge noise that entrances.  There is something epic about this sound while always remaining modest.  The snare drum tightened right up gives an Biv 3rd Febindustrial beat that underpins a lot of the hardcore work on top.  Fantastic. 

 

The Cape of Good Hope from out of town piled on the noise and Ice Cream Social appeared, all in hoodies and had a really good laugh and finally got people to the front and having a bit of a mosh.  It was a top night.

 

 

 

 

Some pics online at www.shine.clara.co.uk/gigs webspace.

Pete

 

Band Websites:

Ice Cream Social
Virile
The Small Print


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