Friday night gigs are great aren’t they? No work tomorrow so you don’t need to worry about rushing home straight afterward and of course, you can always enjoy a drink or two if that’s your thing! This Friday night took us to the Wardrobe in Leeds to see Clean Cut Kid, back on tour after a year away writing and recording new material.
Our favorite night of the week, in one of our favorite venues enjoying one of our favorite bands. The ingredients were all there for this to be a great night!
We started off with something new, Peach Fuzz is a new band with a nostalgic feel. Is it me or does anyone else get the sense that we are enjoying something of an 80’s revival at the moment? The synthesized keyboard sounds that were typical of that era are certainly becoming more common again and Peach Fuzz continued with that trend. Indeed lead singer Nathaniel Cummings took that one stage further with a psychedelic outfit and makeup that wouldn’t be out of place in any New Romantic set up of the time. They offered a vibrant and exciting opening to tonight’s events and their Psych Rock sound got things off to a cracking start. New single ‘Destroy the Evidence’ was a real treat, as was the rest of the set to be fair.
Signed to Skeleton Key records and boasting stablemates such as She Drew the Gun and of course The Coral they are in great company to continue the trend of new independent music and are definitely one to look out for.
Clean Cut Kid, of course, have been here before and are now experienced hands on the live music scene. Despite, as mentioned having a year out and recording a new album any fears Mike Halls may have had about being rusty were short-lived. Arriving on stage to a fairly dramatic entrance of mood lights and the odd bit of smoke, in no time at all it was like they had never been away.
