I like going to the Hope & Anchor. For me it's quick and easy to get to with excellent transport links, and the venue is dripping with rock history - even though the room downstairs has changed beyond recognition over many years. And the ale prices are pretty reasonable for a music venue. Just the fact that they even have real ale as well the the usual generic fizzy pisswater puts it above nearly all music venues in London. 🍻 Then add the fact that they regularly put on bands that I actually want to see and the ticket price is pretty low for 3 or 4 bands - especially on these monthly Rockaway Beach club nights where I can be sure of bumping into a bunch of people I know. 😊 And tonight there are a couple of bands I know I will enjoy....
First up are Glitter Kick. This outfit have evolved from a band called Bexatron, but their singer decided she didn't want to do it anymore and left. This is effectively the same band with a different singer - enter Roxi.
I had seen Roxi a few times before singing in a band called The Transmitters and she made quite an impression - the best of three or four different girls I had seen fronting that band. I said this was effectively Bexatron with a different singer - well Glitter Kick
were when they initially formed - that was the case as they still had the late and much missed
Belle Star on drums. He managed to record all his drum parts and produce the forthcoming Glitter Kick debut album before his untimely demise. And Adam the bass player has since left the band - so tonight after the band's debut at the
Belle Fest tribute show at The Underworld we have a stand-in drummer and bass player. The bassist is former Transmitters guy Aaron who is
very good - the coolest guy in any band is usually the bass player. 😎
This gig is virtually Glitter Kick's first proper show, but you'd never know it from their polished and professional performance. Their mixture of pop/rock/punk songs sound good too.
Glitter Kick have a bunch of catchy memorable songs with good hooks - I am looking forward to hearing what their debut album sounds like when it eventually emerges...
The next band have a few albums under their studded belts - probably the best known of which is
Great Adventure Cigar.
Janus Stark have been around since the last century and have been through a few lineup changes over the years, but the one constant is their frontman Gizz Butt - who has also been seen playing guitar with The Prodigy when they they get out to play live. Although this band appear to wear a uniform on stage their sound is full-on punk rock, but with some dazzling lead guitar and solos. As long as they play their single 'Every Little Thing Counts' I'll be happy, and they do. Oddly they also include a Buzzcocks cover in their set tonight, but it is such a brilliant and well known piece of pop/punk perfection that they can get away with it.
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