Disarm + The Tripdown Project + The Panic Theory + The Charge + The Blanks |
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| The Bivouac
28th November 2008
Photos & Review by Pete |
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On the way to the Biv tonight I saw several Siberian foreign exchange students only get as far as their front doorsteps before turning back rather than face the bitterly freezing fog that had draped itself over Lincoln. Tch! Thank god it didn’t deter the weedy-looking-but-totally-indestructible local indie and emo kids - so that the Bivouac had a more than satisfying little buzz going on despite the conditions - and for a
With sixty plus in attendance even early on newest of the new newbie bands The Blanks ignited the place from their first big, banging chords. Mick, Scott, Dom and Jambo expertly balanced bossy bass & drums with two six string guitars which were adamantly settling for nothing less than a non-stop stylish and fastidiously assured display, sustaining interest with cool converging and diverging sounds. Reminiscent of some of the late 70’s finest slick punky bands The Blanks also had something new to say, they were not so much choking on retro influences as finding that same eager potency all over again. This was seriously good, chunky with flourishes. Particularly impressive was the way they fearlessly set up a exciting song
When the openers are that good it seems an anticlimax is inevitable whoever is on next. Not so on this occasion. The crowd had thinned to maybe 30 when Aiden, Alex and Rob of The Charge - with only a couple of previous gigs to get into their stride themselves since reforming this year - opened up with a sound that was dramatically full of uptempo energy. Leaner than before the previous bleak aloofness has been kicked into touch, replaced by something restless but way more lively. The songs feel accessible. It’s like they wrapped in pretty paper the best bits from loads of great indie bands, shining fragments, full of pleasing familiarity held together by an underpinning of masculine metal. As the crowd quickly swelled to maybe a hundred it was clear they were now pushing all the right buttons. An excited bunch of girls up front set about some serious head banging - it would never have happened back in Depol days and sort of ticked another box. (A weird one.)
Compared to the first two bands The Panic Theory may be
The second to last band were in fact the final band to have the word ‘the’ in their band name and were in fact The Tripdown Project. When they started up I had to get up on a chair at the back to double check that the intense tsunami of noise that was being produced was being produced was by just two guys, Jojo and Shrap. Guitar and drums were more than sufficient to batter the place. Even from the back it was raw and then the closer I got to the front the more brutal it was seeming. A load of their own committed fans were responding by pounding the hell out of the dance floor and having a good time.
The last band of the night were glam metal outfit Disarm. Their well worked image suggested plenty of posturing ahead - which was quickly forthcoming - but no doubt about it, the playing was convincingly earthy, full on and yeah some early reservations were in time bludgeoned aside. Their ambition is clearly high and Brad, Jamie, Noddy and Ant have the determined look of guys who are gonna give a committed performance every single time they get up to play somewhere. Funny thing, by the end I was willing ‘em on, to push it just a bit further, to come on a bit heavier and to get it some place a bit wilder. They should have been climbing over the speakers, god knows, something. They seem to have got it in ‘em, the hunger is there, you can just tell. By the end the temperature in the room was way up high and the cold night outside long forgotten. Thanks to all the bands, top night.
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second week in a row. Crap climate: nil. Live music: one. Result. 
only to unexpectedly pull it apart and fling it around and immediately reassemble it in a dazzling new way. Breathtaking stuff. 
adolescents but they have been around for absolutely ages - it must be nearly three months since they played their first gig. Despite this lengthy career they don’t seem to be doing drugs yet or be struggling with major ego clashes and artistic differences which is amazing and a relief. BUT I gotta say, major fail for choosing to open in low gear. Zzz. That knocked back the swell of anticipation and could have been more problematic were it not for what they came up with next. Which was song number two. Oh yeah. No need to panic after all - cos this was fabulous. Blitzy music from Tom, Richard and Pat, with a precocious vocal arrangement from Alice on top, a daringly restrained slow beat of single words. Well cool and a little bit extraordinary. This band work hard for each other and yet give the impression that making good songs is effortless like anyone could do it. (Like I 
wish.) Lead singer Alice is also ultra relaxed on stage. Their fans are to die for. 
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