To The Bones @ Club AcademyMark Hesford 26/ 8/2008
THINGS don’t get much more surreal than walking into Club Academy and finding 200 13-year-olds souped up on Coca Cola.
…Not to mention lemonade, Vimto and possibly sherbert dip too, for tonight is the ‘Sonic Boom Under 18’s Rock Night’.Essentially, it’s a youth club straight from a Top Man marketing exec’s dream, and the audience - looking somewhere between the cast of ‘Skins’ and ‘Grange Hill’ – go ape to everything the DJ spins, from ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ to ‘Billie Jean’.
But it’s only when To The Bones take to the stage that things get really weird.
The Bolton four-piece launch into ‘Cay Augustina’, a snarling powerhouse of a song that hits like a ton of bricks and within minutes, these formerly innocent-looking youngsters are popping their ‘psycho-rock’ cherries and bouncing off each other in what could well be their first ever slam pit.Brutal one
It’s an understandable scene; the TTB musical experience is a brutal one. The drums pound you to the floor, the vocals and guitars slash wildly at your jugular while the bass rifles through your pocket for your car keys.Before you know it, you’re lying helplessly in the back seat as your assailants take you on a trip through '90s alt rock, '70s punk and even '80s thrash and hardcore in brief spurts.Images of everyone from Kurt Cobain and Johnny Rotten to Lemmy and Henry Rollins flash before your eyes.
From the dark sleaze of ‘Lips On Red’ to the barely controlled explosions of ‘Sharkies Bone Symphony’, the group pack a punch like a brass-knuckled fist and within half an hour, the kids are left well and truly pulverized.Tonight’s show is just further evidence that To The Bones could well be the most ferocious band in Britain, and if you miss how powerful Queens Of The Stone Age used to be before they lost it, they could well be the band you’ve been waiting for. Prepare to be eaten alive.
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