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PISS KITTI, OI NAH & AMOURETTE

Voodoo Daddy's Showroom

17/07/24

Following last night’s very metal shenanigans in the Waterfront Studio, it is down to Voodoo Daddy’s for something that promises to be just as rockin’ but really rather different.  
AMOURETTE kick things off in fine style, with a garage rock sound that mixes up the MC5, Stooges, Thunders and the Heartbreakers and early Damned with prime grunge and a touch of Panic Shack. There’s some proper old school guitar heroics, some gloriously filthy bass and engagingly bratty vocals. Amourette are not doing anything particularly new but they do it in fine style. The quartet know how to write a tune, deftly mix melody with their noisier inclinations and have an appealing charm about them. This is a band whose progress I will be watching keenly.
Following that isn’t easy and OI NAH don’t completely win me over. They sound very different tonight to when I saw them down here back in February, have grown massively in confidence - if rather too enthusiastic in the liberal shouting of motherfuckers  - and are finding their own sound. Other than the opener, which sounds too early 80s oi (the genre) for my ears, the mash up of anarchopunk and the more metallic side of goth and nu-metal with occasional nu-metal guitar squeals and death metal vocals is intriguing, if not yet fully formed. For some reason, they remind me of Every New Dead Ghost but I suspect there’s no more than three other people in the room that remember them… Whatever, although they don’t really convince me tonight, Oi Nah have plenty of fans in the room and is another band I’ll be checking out in the future. 
I do so love a band whose name is seemingly chosen to avoid any chance of mainstream success. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Fucked Up, Fuck Buttons and Crywank, I bring you Liverpool’s PISS KITTI. Opener Baby, Stain Me is as close to the Ramones covering Blondie’s One Way Or Another, albeit with heavier guitar, as it is possible to get. It’s fast and frantic, with the Ronettes style harmonies that were beloved of Joey Ramone. And whilst the playing get more frenetic - some might say aggressive, almost venturing into IDLES territory at times - as the set goes on, that sets the template for the night: melodic, energetic, high tempo punky rock ‘n’ roll with a pop heart. The set is packed full of instant classics like the opener, Turn You Over, Dennis and Leather Forever. Rollerblade may just be the catchiest song I have heard this year. 
Piss Kitti’s debut album will be coming out on Venn later in the year. I am looking forward to that and hopefully Piss Kitti’s return to Norwich in support of its release. In the meantime, roll on the next BandCamp Friday so I can invest in the releases so far. 
Thanks again to Annie and the Pica Pica, Pica Pica crew for putting this together and bringing another great night to Voodoo’s. Oh, and for those like me that have been missing the old Voodoo’s, the downstairs bar and toilets are now open and this is turning into a properly good venue. 

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