Bad Apples, Mire & Chasing Creation - B2
Where is everybody? Bad Apples deserve a much bigger audience than this.
Three local bands for a quid and there is next to no one here. What is wrong with people?
Last time I saw Chasing Creation, they reminded me of Pavement and Palma Violets. Tonight may have been an off-night, with some technical issues, but it seemed to be a different band, playing blues-rock that would’ve been at home in smoky boozers a couple of decades ago. (5/10)
I didn’t get Mire at first but went from turgid grunge-lite akin to Stone Temple Pilots to full-on Bleach-era Nirvana cacophony as the band grew in confidence. More like the closing trio of numbers and I’ll be praising them to the heavens. (6.5/10)
Bad Apples have a goodly dose of blues-rock about them but, being a duo in the vein of Black Keys or White Stripes, this is straight outta the garage. Gloriously primal rock ‘n’ roll, anyone that plays Kick Out The Jams with such intensity will always have me on their side. Cracking stuff. (8/10)
