Page 37 - RYAN'S GIG GUIDE NOVEMBER 2014

RGG November 2014 - p.37
Note to self don’t get guest list to bands you don’t like just
because a mate asks you to Only do this for hot girls whilst
drawing the line at Ed Sheeran… Unless she is a worldie!
The late stage times meant I had twenty minutes
to kill which I spent walking around the Civic
checking out the crowd until I found a perfect
place to perch I have never seen so many hot girls
of questionable age in Wolverhampton I started
to warm to the a little That was until the
excitement started to rise (the crowds not mine!)
Gradually the screaming started the sexual wails
of obsessed teenage girls ripped through the
crowd as we approached stage time It stirred a
flicker of interest in me expecting to see some
Jagger like god rock on the stage
I struggle to even describe what I was greeted
with but I’ll give it a go Matt Healy lead singer
of the ambled about the stage swinging his
mic like a grebo throw back from the mid s
The girls screamed When he spoke the standard
“Hello Wolverhampton” followed by “I don’t think
I’ve ever been here before” I have rarely heard a
straight man so camp Yet still the girls screamed
At this point I made my way to the back of the
Civic Hall Standing with the crowd of bemused
looking Dad’s it was where I seemed to fit in best
From this vantage point I could tell two things
Firstly the sound quality at Wolverhampton Civic
is unparalleled for any music venue I have ever
visited The depth and warmth of the acoustics
make everything sound that little bit better At
times Wolverhampton gets it quite rightly for
being shit But in our main music venue we have
at least one thing we can be proud of
Secondly the are horse shite Most the tunes
sound the same – radio friendly soft rock bilge
After minutes and approximately six songs I
walked out straight on to Spotify to track down
and listen to more Circa Wave Now that’s a band
I could listen to!
It’s Monday night Monday hurts like a mother
fucker and for the second consecutive week I find
myself at the Civic to watch a band I really don’t
want to see Perhaps it is unfair to review
bands/gigs in this mental state? Well they
shouldn’t do gigs on a Monday I’ve said it before
and I will say it again gigs should be a Thursday
to Saturday thing only
To further dissipate my desire to be watching the
I vaguely caught them at Shrewsbury fields
festival last year From my vantage point at the
bar approximately m at pints away they
sounded awful I could barely differentiate
between one song and the next However……
In the days before the gig I listened to the album
over and over and surprised myself to actually
find myself to enjoying some of the songs
Everyone will know the hits of Chocolate Sex and
Girls from the considerable amount of air play
they get but there are a couple of other decent
toe tappers such as Talk M O N E Y (admittedly
not quite the anthem of Wu Tang’s C R E A M)
and Settle Down The less said about the hellish
boring end to the album the better but hey ho
how many albums are filler free?
I wrote the above before the gig I walked in
/ as to what to expect I walked out
convinced of one thing The are dog shit!
I walked into the Civic just before to be greeted
by a wall of guitar and catchy riffs What was
this? Were my ears deceiving me? Were the
playing new music I wasn’t aware of? No for the
first time in an age I had caught the final support
act I actually recognised the song but couldn’t
place it A quick chat with the barmaid secured
me her number and the information I required
The band Circa Waves were most impressive
definitely one to keep an eye or indeed ear out
for Harlytosis