29/7/2011 JD & the FDCs @ Nambucca

Subject	JD & the FDCs @ Nambucca
PostedDate	8/21/2011
	Tonight finds me back at possibly London's best up and coming small venue. Sadly though, the real ale is off at Nambucca tonight.  The music however, is very much on. After a couple of very lacklustre indie bands and their youthful followers who think they are the best bands ever, we get down to the nitty-gritty. JD & the FDCs are a new band from the Midlands fronted by ex-Teenage Casket Company and Dangerfields man Jamie Derelict, and also featuring ex-members of Patchwork Grace and DIP. These guys have all paid their dues. Jamie has ditched the glam and pop aspects of Teenage Casket Company - he was always the punk rock member of that band anyway. His new outfit is a far more uncompromising and in-your-face rock 'n' roll band. The punk rock influence is to the fore, but this band aren't just about thrashing away and making a racket - there are tunes-a-plenty as well as lashings of attitude. This is the band's first London gig, and it doesn't go without a hitch as there is a bit of trouble in the crowd after a serious breach of inter-band etiquette: If you are in one of the bands playing earlier it is up you you to get ALL your gear off the stage BEFORE the next band goes on - and if for some reason you can't then you DON'T climb onto the stage in the middle of another band's set to retrieve any items you neglected to remove earlier. You don't ever interfere with another band's performance by walking across the stage while they are playing - you wait until they finish their set before you finish removing your kit. Until then it's their stage and no one else has any business being on it.  Fortunately, the brief ensuing scuffle in the crowd with a member of another band who will remain nameless who took serious objection to the sheer rudeness and bad form of the stage invader didn't put the FDCs off their stride. They are far more professional than that - it's a shame that can't be said for the idiot from the earlier band disrupting their show.  That minor glitch aside, I think the FDCs first London gig was a triumph. Holloway Road was ripped a new one tonight.  It's just a shame more people weren't there to see it.  The other band I was looking forward to seeing at Nambucca is Shush. However, for some reason their stage time has been put back two or three hours.  As a result it's after midnight when they finally take the the stage - and I have to leave after one song to catch the last train.  It's a shame as they seem on good form from the little I get to see. Fortunately, I don't have long to wait until Shush play at this venue again...

PS: This venue closed down for the second time in early 2014 - no fire this time.