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Once
again it seems I have to travel to see any sort of half decent band and
this time it’s down to Fibbers in York to see the mighty Tokyo
Dragons.
With this being only a small venue it soon seems reasonably full and
this paves well for any band that plays here. You don’t really
have to have a large crowd to create an atmosphere in this intimate
venue.
First up tonight are Phluid, a band that I haven’t seen or heard
before tonight, but on the strength of tonight’s performance, are a
band that I would highly recommend to anyone who likes good old
fashioned ballsy rock n' roll.
With a sound that is a mix between Terrorvision and the Backyard Babies
they deliver 100% hard nose rock like it used to be. Stand out tracks
played tonight would have to be 'Digital TV', 'Bang Bang', 'Oh Ziggy',
and the raucous 'Breakdown in Communication'.
Now on to the main event and the reason for the 150 mile round trip to
York, the Tokyo Dragons. I’ve now seen the Tokyo Dragons three times
now, once as a support act and twice as headliners, and on all three
occasions the band has totally rocked, tonight being no exception.
With most of the set concentrating on the bands debut album 'Give Me The
Fear', they opened up with ‘What The Hell’ and then stormed into
‘Get Em Off’ before pausing for breath and hailing their return to
Fibbers.
The set
continued with the rousing ‘Johnny Don’t Wanna Ride’ and
‘Come On Baby’ and the bands first ever-single ‘Teenage
Screamers’.
As the band continued relentlessly through the set. They
just took the crowd along for the ride and each member of the
audience just totally rocked out with the band. The bands music
seems to have bridged the age gap between the older rock crowd
and the younger crowd as tonight’s crowd plainly showed.
Among them were t-shirts from bands like Iron Maiden and
Metallica, aside the likes of Marilyn Manson and Franz
Ferdinand.
The set continued with
‘Burn On’ and ‘Let It Go’ before they played the only
new song not on the 'Give Me The Fear' album, a song entitled
‘Do It Any Way’, which went down a storm. The band
then finished off a great set with ‘Do You Wanna’ and then
'Rockin The Stew’ before leaving the stage to a rapturous
applause.
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The encore
started with a bass solo from Mathias who was watched by fellow
band mates Steve, Mal & Phil from behind the barriers at the
front of stage, who spent the majority of it pointing and
mocking him from the audience before joining him once more on
stage to round off another great Dragons show.
The only complaint I have
about the gig was the price the band were charging for their
album. £12.99 is a bit steep for CD’s at venues.
As I haven’t yet got a copy of the album I was going to
purchase it at tonight’s gig, but as I can get it cheaper on
the net I left it at that. But the price of the CD’s aside if
you haven’t seen the band before and you need an injection of
good old rock n' roll then check them out next time they're at a
venue near you.
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