Band:
Voodoo Vegas & Club Le Shark Venue:
The Red Rooms, Hawick, Scotland Date:
9 March 2007
I’ve
always been a supporter of bands who aren’t afraid to travel out of their
local area and get their music to a wider audience and so it seemed only
fair that I travel two hours up across the Scottish Borders to Hawick’s
Red Room to see Bournemouth based bands Voodoo Vegas and Club Le Shark.
If
image was a prime factor in a bands success then Club Le Shark would be
superstars, as frontman Tristan Palumbo struts around the club shades and all looking all
the rock star. So would this confidence exceed to the stage? Well quite
simply yes!
Club Le Shark
bring their own brand of sleaze rock north of the border with style and
swagger with frontman Tristan Palumbo reminding me much of Wrathchild’s
Rocky Shades.
The band then set about corrupting the
young minds of Scotland with their sleaze ridden punk vibe of song like
‘Bad Girls’, ‘Happy Hour’ and even the classic Alice Cooper track
‘Eighteen’ got sleazed up and saw the young crowd rocking it up, which
surprised me as most of them wouldn’t have been a twinkle in their dads
eye when this was first released.
They kept their set short and sweet as
they continued with ‘Shot Down In Flames’ and the anthemic ‘Rock n Roll
Angel’, before finishing off an impressive set with ‘Only For The Blood Of
The Party’, which saw Voodoo Vegas frontman Lawrence Case joining them on
stage to assist with
the chorus.
The band impressed me so much, I would
recommend anyone to check them out if you see their name in the local
press, if they're playing a venue near you, you really just gotta check these
guys out.
Now for the second of the Bournemouth
attach courtesy of Voodoo Vegas, a band who I saw last year supporting
American Dog at Trillians in Newcastle and was greatly impressed with them
then.
The band got their set underway with
‘Sweet Mary Jane’ and from the off Case was well up for the show with his Seb
Bach stylings, as he spurned on the crowd to get down the front.
The set however was brought to an abrupt halt for
a few minutes as their was a little tech problem as the guitar amp just wimped out.
However, this didn’t deter the band as they show the professionalism
with bass player and drum filling in before things got back to normal.
They continued their set completely unfazed and continued to subsequently rock the
place with a near perfect set of good old fashioned rock n' roll.
The band even squeezed in a cover of
Motorhead’s ‘Born to Raise Hell’, which featured on a Motorhead tribute
album, the set continued with ’Waysted’ and the anti Emo song ‘Samaritan
Man’. A song which featured some kick ass guitar work by Nick Brown.
The band then dedicated their next song
‘Good Girls Go Bad’ to our editor Little Linda whose birthday it was just
the day before, a nice touch I thought.
They then continued with the high octane
rock n' roll with ‘High And Dry’, another huge guitar based song, then it
was time to slow the pace down a touch with a little blues with ‘Taxi
Driver’, which saw Case venture into the crowd to encourage a little audience
participation as he invited them to join in on his harmonica.
Things started to heat up once more with
the impressive ‘Spin Me’ and finishing off on a high the band launched
into ‘I Love Rock n'
Roll’, which capped off another impressive set by the band and which made the
two hour trip well worth every mile.
