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Artist: Heaven's Basement & Dear Superstar Venue: 02 Academy, Newcastle Date:
11 December 2009
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a year when the world was in deep recession and the bankers seemed hell
bent on bringing the world as we know it to an end, there was still one
thing you can bank on and that is feel good rock n' roll.
And two bands set on taking it the masses with relentless touring are
Dear Superstar and Heavens Basement, and when both these bands united to
tour together, not only in 2009 but well into 2010, the pair were set on
burning up the UK stages like never before. Tonight
we caught these two bands live in action, waving the flag for good old
fashioned no nonsense rock n' roll at Newcastle’s O2 Academy, and even
though tonight's show was in the smaller of the two rooms, the
enthusiastic sell-out crowd made it seem like it was in the large room,
as both bands fuel injected rock just oozed out of every band members
pores. I
know there we three bands on tonight but our apologies go to the first
band, who we just caught the last song of their set because of traffic
problems getting to the venue. From the feedback we heard amongst the
crowd they went down well with those lucky enough, and early enough into
the venue to catch them. When
Dear Superstar hit the stage the band were on fire from the off, with
frontman Micky taking up the role of puppet master, as he worked the
crowd up into a veritable frenzy as the band fired through their set,
which mainly contained songs from their excellent debut album
‘Heartless'. Although it was the newer songs that really showed
us the band are looking towards the future with the superb 'Her Greed My
Vanity’ and ‘Glitter Like Gold’. The band even threw in a
rousing cover version with the Kinks classic 'Lola’. The
band rounded things off in great style with their tour de force track
for me, the excellent ‘Brothers In Blood’, once again showing the
rest of the rock community how to ROCK it big style. If
you haven’t seen this band live then you’ve got to check them out
because it's high octane all the way from start to finish. Next
up were Heavens Basement, who like Dear Superstar have tread the boards
and spilled blood for their art over the stages both large and small
throughout this green and pleasant land of ours. And tonight was
no different as just like Dear Superstar before them, they were on fire
from the off. These guys aren’t the all out rock affair that
Dear Superstar are, they do bring it down a touch from time to time and
this makes for a set that had something for all. The
crowd where well up for them tonight with the likes of
‘Misunderstood’ and ‘Reign On My Parade’ bringing the crowd to
almost fever pitch, but it wasn't until Johnny Rocker took the mike for
a thumping version of ‘Paranoid’, that the fans, both young and old,
really went into overdrive. They
capped off the set with what else but ‘Executioners Day’, which
again sent waves around the room and 250 voices made their selves heard
as they sang along to this one. As I can say about Dear Superstar is that they are a band that is must see live to get the full-on affect, but put these two bands together on the same stage and you should beg, steal or borrow the money to catch these two great British bands in action. They're both destined for great things so see them now before the arena tours come calling. |
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