Thursday night finds me back at the
Black Heart. Tonight's opening act is ex-UK Subs/Dogs D'Amour/ Crybabys/Vibrators (and many other bands) guitarist
Darrell Bath. Tonight Darrell is playing a solo electric set.
Darrell has a rich back catalogue of songs to pick from, both from the bands he's been in and also his own solo material. His guitar playing is something special and he has a knack for making it look totally effortless - it just seems to 'happen' as if by magic and the notes tumble from his fingers. He has a very natural feel for this raw blues and rootsy type material. I look forward to seeing him play with his own band again this summer...
A very good turnout in Camden on a 'school night' - great to see so many people that still go out mid-week to support the underground rock 'n' roll scene. I was very late discovering Last Great Dreamers and I still don't understand how such a great band went under my radar first time round in the early 1990's. In 2014 they returned. It's still less than a year since I first saw them - this being the third time since then. After hearing them a few times on Dave Rengade's show on Hard Rock Hell Radio I finally caught them live at last year's
Camden Rocks Festival and was amazed as how good they were! Tonight they have yet another stand-in bassist - the more eagle eyed amongst you who have been long-term readers of my blog might recognise one-time Nikki Sixx/DeeDee Ramone lookalike Burty from another band from a few years ago, but he's more recently been a member of Tigertailz.
Things have moved on a bit since last year and now they have a brand new album '13th Floor Renegades' out tomorrow - this is the album release show.. As with their earlier releases, there are some cracking songs on there - these guys really know how to write a catchy pop/rock song - and then deliver it amazingly well live! Tonight's set is a mixture of old and new, with such unknown classics as 'Oblivion Kids', 'White Light Black Heart', 'Dope School', and tonight 'Ashtray Eyes' sounds particularly good.
Once again Last Great Dreamers deliver a fine set of really well written catchy pop/rock songs with immense confidence and swagger. I hope I won't have to wait until next year to see them again...
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