Friday, November 03, 2006

 

The Glitterati, Camden Underworld 30.10.06

A Monday night is probably the worst day of the week for a gig, yet here I am trundling up to London for the second Monday running. This time it is to see The Glitterati whose debut album was released last year. Very good it was too, and at a bargain £7.00 thought it would be worth seeing them live. The gig was at the Camden Underworld. After a quick pint in the ex-Hogshead, The Earl Of Camden I head in to see two of the three supports. The first is an all girl quartet called The Love Bites. They were pretty good, with the lead singer (called Aimee) showing a lot of confidence and stage presence. Fairly grungy in places they have potential to be a rock band in the mould of The Donnas or L7. A shame that at this stage there were only about twenty or thirty people in the venue.
My 21 Grams were next. A fairly heavy thrashy band. Not really my cup of tea and after three similar sounding songs I head to the bar. Here I make a feeble effort to chat up members of the Love Bites although it later looked like all of them bar the singer were with their boyfriends. (by feeble I mean smiling inanely rather than actually using words!)
After a couple of pints I head back and claim a good position for the main band. The venue had now filled up a bit and I’d guess there were about a hundred in the venue. (Still only half full though). The PA play a mixture of classic rock/glam climaxing with Gary Glitter’s RocknRoll which the band walk on stage to. They put on a good show. Nothing original about the Glitterati but a few stand out songs such as ‘Back In Power’ and ‘Heartbreaker’ as well as a share of new stuff which sound a bit like Guns&Roses and The Sweet (if you can imagine such a combination). You’d certainly compare these to a band like the Paddingtons (who I am seeing next week) as not out to change the music world but to clearly have a good time playing the sort of music they enjoy listening to.

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