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Independent is rapidly attaining institution status in Blackburn and rightly so, they've brought us some of the best local (and not so local) bands and all for 0 pence.
Tonight was meant to have been the long - awaited debut of those Ribble Valley mercenaries ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!; unfortunately, it turned out to be a case of STUMBLE! TRIP! FALL! Shame really as you can only admire bands that are willing to attempt something new. They were woefully under - rehearsed and probably not fully in tune with the technology they were using (laptops, keyboards). It is all too easy to pick holes and there were some good points, once they have sorted out their timing issues and beefed up their drum tracks, they will be a good live band. If you remove the fearlessness from music you end up with The Stereophonics. TAKE HEED, YOU SHOULD BE SCARED.
BOOKSTORE were very, very good. There are some excellent bands in Bolton and these are surely one of the best. To watch an often dismissive crowd being 'wowed' by a relatively unknown band is a wonderful experience and so it was with BOOKSTORE. Breathtaking musically, they are also visually captivating. Sam (bass) and Chris (guitar) bob and weave like pissed boxers, Ric (drums) hits his kit as if it was personal and Lizzie (vocals) stares and stamps like Bladerunner's female cyborg donning a Laura Ashley number. Musically they mix no wave buzzsaw guitars with post - punk rhythms, add Lizzie's singing, shouting, yelping and it is fine sounding stuff. They are back at The Cellar Bar for the courtyard festival on May 1st, don't miss it.
SEMIHERE gigs are becoming the stuff of legend. Tonight they played for two hours. Semihere manage to morph a band night into a club; indie kids dance with clubbers, chavs and emos exchange knowing winks and the Vosene boys tra la laa and skip with gay abandon. The highlight for me was a mid - set mash up of The Undertones 'Teenage Kicks', the words turned into beats, the beats turned into Bod, my brain turned to blancmange.
Johnny Asshole