Reviews

50ft Woman @ The Gassienda 28/11/08

Well hell yeah we really did get her back in the club!!

She just blew in from the windy city and rocked this joint to pieces.

She is 50ft of shexyness, classy kinda sassy with her skirt way above her knees…….as Steven Tyler would say !!

But yes sir, this band, are as tight as the proverbial nuns crutch. With tunes more catchier than crabs in Blackpool on the Glasgow fortnight !!!

Minki, poor gal was wee bit under the weather. But she sang her 50ft heart out to the pleasure of one and all. She really has got herself one helluva band. Totally together and it does give me pleasure (!) when a band make the effort to look like a Rock ‘n’ Roll band….I do wish others would take note !! But there again I am a stickler for that kinda thing !!!

Coming on like a female fronted Aerosmith with plenty of AC/DC riffs and with a subtle hint of pop made it a great show. Songs such as ‘Ultra Violet’, ‘Strictly Only Swinging’ and ‘Skinny Minnie’ are pure pop rock ‘n’ roll so much so it made me wanna whip out me old glam rock gear and shake some action. Great band and really nice folks!! Well worth a look at from any angle !!!!

Mean while Minus Jack rocked out and blew the fuses!!! Literally. Great young punky rock urchins who really need to be sent up chimneys to earn their keep !!

Leeds outfit Dont Tell Rachel on their first appearance here did the business. Good tunes, great playing and it was a pleasure to deal with them !! Cheers you cats!

Random Hand + Mike TV + The Marmozets

The Gassienda Friday 3rd October 2008

The Random Hand rock ‘n’ roll circus rolled into town on what was the coldest night of the year so far. But fear not my friends cos things warmed up faster than a hooker’s hand job round the back of Sainsburys!!!

 On this, their second date of their 27 date latest UK tour they brought along a great support in the form of Mike TV and with the added attraction of young pup rockers The Marmozets the night was set for some serious metal moshing poptastic punk ‘n’roll !!

The Marmozets are on average maybe 13 or 14. But can they play? Well does a bear shit in the woods ?? These guys and gal can rock out and would put up a good scrap with a band twice their age. Incredible playing by all the band and the songs are not kids songs but great spunky catchy pop songs. The kid on the drums was outstanding. He must weigh about 2 stone wet through, but he knocked hell out that kit. Great young band. Well worth checking out.

Mike TV on the other hand. Older Budweiser !! They pushed the peg up a notch or 10. Fuck me with a rag mans trumpet! They have as some seriously good songs going on here. They look the part, they sound the part and they have some of the best harmonies I have heard since Charlotte Church gave me a blow job and the angels sang ‘Halleujah’. Really it was that good. Fast, furious and rocking like a runaway surf board down in Orange County! A real class act these dudes!!

Random Hand took to the stage with great gusto. I really like it when bands use intro music to come onto. So others take note!!

Well, they these cats aint played in Keighley since the beginning of the year, so anticipation was high. But they turned the proverbial screw and wound that spring all the way up to the top and then let it uncoil with out so much as public safety announcement like, ‘Watching This Band Could Kill You’ sort of thing. And they really did take the roof off this gaff. From some serious skanging ska to over the edge metal mayhem. From now on Robin Leitch singer/trombone player will be  known as ‘Kangaroo’. Why?? Well, imagine a the said marsupial imbibing serious amounts of class a drugs, vast amounts of Carlsberg Special Brew and having a sniff of the saddles of the local Hells Angels gang. And ol’skippy might get some where near! Jesus, he was jumping around like a human jumping bean. I think by the end of the tour he is gonna lose so much weight he will be transparent!!

The band were as tight as a nuns crutch and played like their lives were in danger. Special mention must go to Dimmers on the drums. This cat can really do the business.

So if ya missed them down here check’em out in Leeds at the end of the month.