Samiam / The Draft / Wireless Stores

Not an easy venue to find, considering it’s near the Trent river and the Nottingham football ground. I did make it however to catch some of Milloy, Wakefield’s best melodic punk band, as they finished their stonking set.

The Wireless Stores are a supergroup hailing from Leeds and Nottingham, with members of Send More Paramedics (no make up tonight I’m afraid) and Bivouac. They have a slight country sound covering indie/emo type rock, and impress the crowd with tracks including those from debut album ‘Dust Ghosts’.



Since the departure of Hot Water Music a lot of people have been feeling little lost. Now there’s The Draft, featuring 3 members of the influential punk rock band and a fourth from Discount.


In a Fugazi vain, with rough post hardcore sounds, the guys are popular tonight, with tracks like 'Wired'. Although the crowd just fills the place, it is nice to be able to walk about unhindered by fellow music fans, and be able to get to the bar easily!

For a band that back in the day had such support bands as Green Day, Offspring and Blink 182, Samiam never broke through to the insane levels of stardom, but have enough underground fans to see them right now that they have regrouped. They mix such influences as Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr with punk veterans Husker Du and the Sex Pistols, while adding a slice of Beatles-esq pop. The crowd hasn’t grown much since The Draft’s set, in fact it has been constant all night.



I checked out The Draft and Samiam the previous night in Leeds, and (not dissing great support from Vanilla Pod and Calcutecs) tonight is a better show. As previously mentioned you can move about, whereas the Leeds venue was packed to the rafters; people with tickets could not even get in to see the bands. Not surprising, as songs like ‘She Found You’ and ‘Factory’ from excellent album ‘You Are Freaking Me Out’ go down very well on both occasions. To round up; a nice venue, great music and friendly folk. Just more sign-posting needed by Nottingham City council!

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