Loud, thrashing guitars, a constantly moving singer and just raw energy flow from this band. Having just played Download with the Gallows, sure this will be a promotional tour, but when you get songs like Grenades, '100 Grand Canyon, Butterscotch and Downpour its easy to see that punk isnt dead, you have to search it out and not rely on high end press to wait until its in fashion. Singer Liam Cormier is like he is on a spring, bouncing off the stage and throwing his head down to scream into the mic (and the crowds faces).
Now then, you may have heard but these Watford punks dont like any shit. I would not dispute that they are as hard as they act (not look, the tattoos dont fool me and they are only thin lads), singer Frank Carter especially. With that stare straight from Johnny Rottens eyes and drawn face, he could well be punks new anti-hero. When he asks the crowd to help sing Happy Birthday to a crew member, he is met with the now obligatory chorus of Yorkshire! Yorkshire!. His answer? That he has had a cup of Yorkshire tea with Yorkshire water, and that its the best he has had.
The crowd are also pleased by statements that we are better than Sheffield, where they played last night. Much of the set is made up of requests, like In The Belly Of A Shark, although it is a very short set (with no encore) of just over half an hour. Still the roof is raised, Carter ending the set having crowd surfed from the speaker stack on stage to the bar at the side, where he still promotes circle pits and general bruising activities.
Songs tonight include Six Years, Sick Of Feeling Sick'', and Come Friendly Bombs. Orchestra Of Wolves and Abandon Ship are two songs that the crowd really go mad for, and I dont think the crowd or the venue could have taken much more of the Gallows!
article by: Danielle Millea
photos by: Danielle Millea
published: 13/06/2007 16:33
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