22 May 2007
The Boardwalk, Sheffield: 11th May 2007
The problem with blogs is that when you’re busy, you have more to blog about but less time to blog because you’re busy. So you have to wait until you’re not so busy and then you can’t remember exactly what you were going to say. I’ve started to write this three times now. Maybe I’d be better of live-blogging when I go to gigs, although past experiences have taught me that alcohol and technology do not go together...
Anyway, a few of us went to The Boardwalk in Sheffield a week last Friday to watch saw more bands. We only caught the last two, but here’s a brief account of what I remember about them...
Downfall Of Paris – myspace.com/downfallofparis
Four young lads from Newcastle who we thought were pretty average until they played Burn The Roxy, which they claimed was about The Roxy in Sheffield. Since most towns and cities have a nearby shit-hole club called The Roxy, they could easily say that in every town and city where they play though. One good thing about them was that they’d actually bothered to burn six of their tracks onto CDs to give out for free which you don’t get very often these days. Just as well really as I had no idea what they were called until I read what was written on the CD when I got home. I don’t know, these young bands need to learn not to mumble on stage when they say their band name and give out their MySpace address...
Anyway, when they finished playing I decided to give their guitarist some words of wisdom from when I was on the live music circuit all those years ago. Basically, I told him to turn his guitar up, which is good advice if you ask me. I think he then got a bit freaked out when Jo managed to pretty much guess his and the lead singer’s professions though...
Dead World Leaders – myspace.com/deadworldleaders / 2
This band was the reason we were at the Boardwalk. When they sent me a friend request on MySpace quite a while ago, I had a quick listen and thought they sounded pretty damn good so I added their gig to my calendar. This was their “Homecoming Gig” as they’re a Sheffield band who hadn’t played in the city for seven months or so. DWL (as their friends call them) have a pretty decent following in Sheffield and it’s obvious why; great stage presence coupled with tight, catchy, powerful melodies and riffs that sound great and deserve to be alongside all the other popular indie rock guitar bands in the charts at the moment. And according to one of the reviews on iTunes, they’ve already supported Snow Patrol.
If you want to hear them for yourself, you can download some of their tunes from their website or buy their latest double A-side single The Start of the End Begins / Still I Think What I Think from iTunes – and it goes without saying that I’d definitely recommend catching them live at one of their upcoming gigs.
