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Artist: Silverjet & Dear Superstar Venue: The Corporation, Sheffield Date:
4 April 2009
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A three
hundred mile round trip down to Sheffield for a night out might to some
seem a little extreme but when you’ve got four bands performing for a
little as five pounds then the trip seems well worth it. The
Corporation has become the home for Sheffield’s finest Silverjet and
judging by the crowd, the band have gathered in a lot of people, who
like me, also rate the band very highly. But as I
said there were four bands on tonight and we arrived midway through the
opening band Society Crisis’s set, who delivered a hard rocking start
to the night. Next up were glam stalwarts The Sweethearts, a band
with more hair than the majority of the crowd put together tonight. The band
came across as a mix between The New York Dolls and Wrathchild and
delivered a set which went down well with the majority of the crowd.
They're definitely a band I would like to see performing again live. The main
reason for the trip down was to be honest the two main bands, the first
of these being Dear Superstar, a band I’ve caught on several occasions
now and one that still impresses. The bands
short but impressive set really gave the nigh on capacity crowd an extra
boost of adrenalin with the likes of ‘Live Love Lie’ and
‘Brothers In Blood’, which were just two of the many
highlights for me here tonight. I would have loved the band to
have done a longer set, but maybe next time. Now on to
Silverjet, a band who are without a doubt have one of the hardest work
ethics of all the young bands around today in the UK. The majority
of the crowd had come along to see this the band's first show of 2009
and they weren’t disappointed, as Dave Kerr and the rest of the band
pumped out some damn fine Hard Rock, opening up their account in fine
style with ‘Crazy’. One thing
that has changed since I last saw the band is the addition of a new bass
player Liam Hill, who I must say seemed extremely comfortable in the
band. The band really were on fire tonight as they powered through
the set with ‘By The Way’, ‘Hell Yeah’ and my own personal
favourite ‘Mardigras’. The crowd
just love this band and as I looked round the room I could see that all
but a few were singing along with Kerr to every song. Tonight the
band were really firing on all six including the bluesy ‘Broken’,
which sounded superb and ‘Just Another Rock Show’, which again never
sounded so good. The set was
full throttle 'Jet at their best and rounding things off with ‘Face To
Face’, which really left the crowd buzzing. When you see
bands like Silverjet giving their all and not getting the breaks they
deserve, it’s always great to put on a home town show and get a full
house of fans right behind you. It must make all that hard work
worthwhile. Well done to all the bands who played here tonight,
all told it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening of great rock n' roll
music and an energy packed atmosphere. |
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