Tuesday, 24 August 2010

The Dwarves - 14/8 The Croft, Bristol

I managed to get out and see The Dwarves last week - I've loved this band for a good number of years - last time I saw them was in 1997 and they were damn good then.  Had a three band wait until they went on - missed the first, but watched Bristols own FUK featuring Gabba from Chaos UK and my mate Corb is on vox.  If you know Chaos UK, you know what yer gonna get with these guys.  '82 inspired thrash, and  no fucking about.

Next was The Dangerfields who have been the support on the tour. For some reason I'd never heard them before - think the name put me off a bit but they were a pleasant surprise - pretty much an Irish Zeke but balls out rock'n'roll was delivered.

Now for The Dwarves.  First of all, where the hell was Hewhocannotbenamed?  The legendary guitarist was strangely absent tonight - I'm well aware The Dwarves have a number of revolving members but surely the mighty Hewho should be part of the Dwarves package?  Anyway - towards the end there was an impostor that crowd surfed who was introduced as the masked mystery man, but I know for a fact it wasn't him.....anyway The Dwarves were pretty great - although it took a few songs to get the sound mix right, but they played an excellent set - lots of older numbers too with a few from the forth coming The Dwarves Are Born Again album.  I have to say I didn't really feel the menace of the old legendary dwarves gigs tonight, where-by anything could happen - there's many a story of riots and mayhem of the early days - and the last time I saw them my friend got the microphone pounded in his forehead - for grabbing Blags scrotum I believe, and quite rightly so! He is still a great front man though and they have such a good mix of raging fast punk, but with the tunes to match.  I hope the new album is better than the last though.  Too experimental for me, stick to the script boys.....




No comments:

Post a Comment