Post by JeffDart on Jul 10, 2004 11:09:42 GMT -5
Last night I promoted a gig with two Heavy Metal bands and a friend of mine did the reviews. So seeing as you all enjoy Heavy Metal, I decided to show you the reviews:
"There's something about the Welsh that gives them a natural affinity to rock of all kinds. Budgie, The Alarm, The Manics, Catatonia, Midasuno have all crawled out of the land of song and given us lessons in rock and roll. Now to this list we must add Children of The Gravy.
Now these guys are metal with a capital M, they opened with a spot on rendition of the Metallica classic 'Seek and Destroy' and closed with a rip roaring version of Maidens 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' stopping off at Motorheads 'Bomber' on the way. But these covers, worthy as they were pale in comparisson with their own songs. 'The Longest Day' and 'Step Outside', both from their current 'Drunk Like A Purple Apeman' EP stand out from the excellent set as songs worth greater attention. Twenty years ago COTG, like tonights headliners Osmium, would have been huge.
But they ain't quite missed the boat yet. As the large crowd of 30 and 40 something bikers, hippies and other assorted hairy types tonight proved there is still a market for their brand of classic metal and as long as their are bands like COTG to play for them metal will live on."
"Osmium are an institution. It's been fourteen years since these hairy metal heads first assaulted our ears with their own brand of post Spinal Tap cartoon metal, and here they are 14 years on and they are packing out the Reckless Engineer with style. You know where you are with this lot. they wear their influences on their sleeves and don't give a damn. In amoungst their own material we had Iron Maidens 'Wrathchild' and a cover of Judas Priests cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Green Manalishi' just incase you forget that these guys grew up with the pile driving sounds of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal as the sound track to their lives.
However it is the quaility and variety of their own songs that makes Osmium special. They show a song writing skill that very few metal acts ever aspire to. They can write tracks like the powerful and political 'Drive The Nails Deeper' (I think that's what it's called) with it's deep and meaningful look at the Palestinian problem, then a few songs later launch into 'Sex Gods From The Planet Metal', which has to be the best cartoon anthem since Rik Mayell called himself Vim Ferrago and recorded 'Warriors of Ghengis Khan'.
As always Dave Rivett and his pint sized side kick were on blistering form (the best axemen in the city?) and vocalist Nestor bestrode the stage like a metal powered collossus and boy can that guy work a crowd. High point had to be a blistering version of the Darkness' 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman', given the Judas Priest treatment, yet retaining the falsetto vocal. Brilliant shit. With a new album on the way and some more live dates in the pipeline. The sex gods are back, you have been warned.
"
"There's something about the Welsh that gives them a natural affinity to rock of all kinds. Budgie, The Alarm, The Manics, Catatonia, Midasuno have all crawled out of the land of song and given us lessons in rock and roll. Now to this list we must add Children of The Gravy.
Now these guys are metal with a capital M, they opened with a spot on rendition of the Metallica classic 'Seek and Destroy' and closed with a rip roaring version of Maidens 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' stopping off at Motorheads 'Bomber' on the way. But these covers, worthy as they were pale in comparisson with their own songs. 'The Longest Day' and 'Step Outside', both from their current 'Drunk Like A Purple Apeman' EP stand out from the excellent set as songs worth greater attention. Twenty years ago COTG, like tonights headliners Osmium, would have been huge.
But they ain't quite missed the boat yet. As the large crowd of 30 and 40 something bikers, hippies and other assorted hairy types tonight proved there is still a market for their brand of classic metal and as long as their are bands like COTG to play for them metal will live on."
"Osmium are an institution. It's been fourteen years since these hairy metal heads first assaulted our ears with their own brand of post Spinal Tap cartoon metal, and here they are 14 years on and they are packing out the Reckless Engineer with style. You know where you are with this lot. they wear their influences on their sleeves and don't give a damn. In amoungst their own material we had Iron Maidens 'Wrathchild' and a cover of Judas Priests cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Green Manalishi' just incase you forget that these guys grew up with the pile driving sounds of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal as the sound track to their lives.
However it is the quaility and variety of their own songs that makes Osmium special. They show a song writing skill that very few metal acts ever aspire to. They can write tracks like the powerful and political 'Drive The Nails Deeper' (I think that's what it's called) with it's deep and meaningful look at the Palestinian problem, then a few songs later launch into 'Sex Gods From The Planet Metal', which has to be the best cartoon anthem since Rik Mayell called himself Vim Ferrago and recorded 'Warriors of Ghengis Khan'.
As always Dave Rivett and his pint sized side kick were on blistering form (the best axemen in the city?) and vocalist Nestor bestrode the stage like a metal powered collossus and boy can that guy work a crowd. High point had to be a blistering version of the Darkness' 'Get Your Hands Off My Woman', given the Judas Priest treatment, yet retaining the falsetto vocal. Brilliant shit. With a new album on the way and some more live dates in the pipeline. The sex gods are back, you have been warned.
"
Drunk like a Purple what? ;D
