16/11/2009 The Glitterati & Spit Like This @ The Gaff

Subject	The Glitterati & Spit Like This @ The Gaff
PostedDate	11/16/2009
	Back to The Gaff tonight for some more reasonably priced drinks and quality rock music. Spit Like This are on first. I'm not particularly impressed by their music as none of their songs seem very memorable, but they do make an effort to put on a good show - which I appreciate. They don't sound as 'metal' as they used to a couple of years as they've lost that heavy crunching guitar sound after switching guitarists. The emo looking guy can play well though, but maybe they would be drawing bigger crowds by now if they paid as much attention to songwriting as they obviously do to image... The Glitterati are tonight's headline band. It's a couple of years since I last saw them and the band has seen major lineup changes since then. Now they are making a bit of a comeback to promote their second album. They have drawn quite a crowd and The Gaff is pretty full. I was a bit worried they might like the last band pay more attention to image than music. I needn't have worried. If anything it wouldn't hurt them to pay a bit more attention to looking like a rock 'n' roll band, but they have some catchy tunes, and they play really well. This is what a proper rock 'n' roll band ought to play like - this is really full on 'in your face' stuff. These guys really play like they mean it, but they also manage to sound really good - a trick not a lot of bands can pull off with any conviction.

PS: This venue is now closed.