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First up tonight are
Dante Fox who I recently caught at this years Firefest pre show party at
Branford's Pennington's and was very impressed with them and with the
vocals of Sue Willets who has a very unique vocal style a sort of UK
Alana Miles.
With three bands playing tonight Dante Fox were still doing a sound
check when the doors were opened and were on stage just a few moments
later and the majority of the crowd hadn’t arrived yet. But this never
put them off as the proceeded with their somewhat short set of about 30
mins that included ‘I Cant See’, ‘Move Closer’ and ‘City
Lights’ all of which seemed lost to the majority of the crowd but some
of us did appreciate the high quality of musicianship on show tonight.
Only when they did their final song, the excellent cover of Remember did
the few people who were in soon come to life, it’s a shame because
Dante Fox are a very talented band.
Next up were the "never say die" Girlschool who have risen to
the dizzy heights of the industry and have also see its lows.
But like all good
band they never die the just let the trends pass by and come back bigger
and stronger.
Opening up with ‘Lets Go’ and ‘Not For Sale’ the band sound
tighter than ever and seem to be enjoying playing live.
The set included many tracks from their huge back catalogue
including many of my favourite tracks like ‘Hit And Run’, ‘Never
Say Never’ and ‘Screaming Blue Murder’ (which happens to be the
last tour I saw them live). They went way back for some of the set as
they played tracks off their debut album Demolition Boys, these being
‘Yeah Right’, ‘Emergency’ and the title track ‘Demolition
Boys’, which were as good now as they were back then. With the encore
including ‘Take It All Away’ and ‘I'm Not That Innocent’, the
girls were definitely back in town and were still the force that I
remembered them as.
Now for Vixen, although the majority of the band are new to us and only
Jan Kuehnemund remaining from the original line up that split back in
1991 after only two albums. But the impact the band made then still
manages to bring a crowd to Bradford to see them in their present form.
Opening up the set with ‘Rev It Up’, the band were certainly firing
on all cylinders. This was quickly followed by ‘Streets In
Paradise’. Both songs whipping the crowd into frenzy. The new
track ‘Live And Learn’ was next and was impressive and shows that
depth of the band not live on past glories and to put together a new
album. But it was the hits the crowd had come to here and they got them
with ‘Not A Minute Too Soon’, ‘Love Is A Killer’, ‘Cryin'’
and ‘Edge Of A Broken Heart’ and these were mixed well with tracks
off the impending new album.
To finish the night
the encore was headed by ‘Bad Reputation’ and a storming version of
Bowies ‘Suffragette City’, which ended a barnstormer of a gig.
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