Tilting Sky All Room Takeover // Waterfront
18 acts in three rooms...too many acts, too many rooms, too little time.
18 acts in three rooms...
Grungey nu-metal band Black Shuk are the musical In-Betweeners. Songs like Cold Lights aren't bad, just derivative. Better time-changes and more character, please. (4/10)
The Anyones play 60s jangly pop, kicking off with Twist and Shout. Competent but unexciting. (3/10)
A cover of Marling's Failure sum up folkie Sam Hindley. Good voice. (5/10)
Post punk trio Happy Coloured Marbles combine PiL, Magazine, Talking Heads and Therapy. (7/10)
Phoebe Robinson’s folk stylings are similar to Sam Hindley, if more wordy. (5/10)
If Fleetwood Mac met Fugazi... Horse Party play the most intense set I've seen them do. Catch them at Epic on 26.09. (9.5/10)
Chasing Creation combine Pavement with Palma Violets to good effect. (7/10)
Revelation of the evening Ducking Punches play punk-folk hinting at a decent Mumfords, Levellers and Impurity period New Model Army. (9/10)
The arena alt.rock of Cities of Gold is full of big postures that leave me cold. (4/10)
The Grazing Saints and Keep Up clash. Cue running up and down stairs. The former's grungey swamp rock and the latter’s West Coast harmonies/VU tinged indie pop both warrant (8/10).
Since I last saw them, The Rumble have added keys but lost the surf/pub-rock elements to become straight ahead rock. Tonight, no better than OK. (6.5/10)
Gospel peddle a Smiths-meets-Joy Division sound, with vocalist Adam very much in the Moz mould. (7/10)
With apologies, I missed Milly Hurst, Dan Hopkinson, Matilda Pine, Soham De and Natalie Lakes.
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