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Blessed By A Broken Heart, Love Hate Hero, Morning After, The First @ White Rabbit, Plymouth |
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Blessed By A Broken Heart
Love Hate Hero
Morning After
The First
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White Rabbit, Plymouth
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It is simply a crime that the UK’s own Morning After are playing to a half empty house. Their own brand of modern ‘old school’ is refreshingly riff driven but delivered without the pomposity that most talented music musicians seem innately possess. Driven forward by the vivacious Sam Ryder and his axe and alluring façade, Morning After are a fantastic 4-piece with a sound that tragically, time has somehow neglected to remember.
Following up with fellow Brits, The First, they’re your typical bass-leading, feel-good punk-rock band that, combined with vocalist Ben Salter’s onstage, and often off-stage and fan engaging theatrics, do well to keep the crowd interested, of which the queue for CD’s following their set showed.
Taking lead of the American imports, you could of been fooled that it is Love Hate Hero that the ensuing throng of oversized, t-shirt clad kids have come to see. The more generic sounding of tonight’s roster, Love Hate Hero have all the makings of a post-pubescent Sum 41 with their goal for accessibility obviously failing to harness the talent of guitarist Kevin Thrasher. None the less, they are top notch at what they are doing, but sadly a case of tagging onto an oversaturated and dying music genre.
All fears of fan loyalty are case aside when Blessed by a Broken Heart turn the throng into a swarm with the charismatic Tony Gamino at the helm. Even with 6-stringer Joel Casey Jones missing (but with Morning After’s Sam Ryder more than sufficiently filling his shoes) they don’t fail at doing what we have come to expect from a Blessed… set; a glammed up, power-metal party.
Opening with ‘She Wolf,’ and causing a lighters-come-mobile-phone-in-the-air (c’mon, health and safety?) with the chant along ‘…To Be Young,’ it wasn’t long until the riot-inducing ‘She’s Dangerous,’ and artiste-en-masse rendition of Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on a Prayer,’ led to what was the ultimately expected encore ‘Move Your Body,’ which the buzzing affront the stage followed like a direct order. No-one can deny that everybody’s’ favourite band-you-love-to-hate have once again managed to leave their mark, and have proved that they are as energetic live, as they are on CD. |
Review by Rhys Heal
Photography by Rhys Heal
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Love Hate Hero
Morning After
The First
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