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Liverpool Barfly..
After the brief intro music ends, Nineteenth Century revitalize the slightly dormant crowd with their take on seventies rock, deftly mixing AC/DC’s swagger and blues snap with an Aerosmith dirty groove.
Nineteenth Century are welcomed with open arms. Never appearing to take themselves too seriously, yet at the same time approaching the music with integrity, Nineteenth Century are past era rock personified. After several minutes, fully aware of this, they nod to their heritage with a version of Cream’s ‘Sunshine of your love ’. Even while the bassist experiences technical problems they continue to flourish and are a breath of fresh air.
Glassswerk review Review by: Mark Cooper
Notts Rock City..
First up onto the small stage is Liverpool based band Nineteenth Century. “Hello Nottingham” shouts lead singer Wane “Show us your hands” a roar goes up from the crowd and they go straight into their first track ‘New Vibration’
With a distinctive sound that is a cross between The Doors and The Rolling Stones this band really get the crowd warmed up as they move to their second song ‘Shake’ As they work their way through this upbeat track one member of the audience comments “Will the real Mick Jagger please stand up” and as Wane gyrates on stage it is hard not to agree with this comment, in the most flattering sense, as his body movements and style are very close to the early Stones.
“nice to see you, are you ready for a party? Tonight’s going to be a great evening ‘cos everyone is a star” he says to the crowd before they go into ‘Star’ There is a real party atmosphere in the smallest of Rock City’s rooms ‘The Basement’, that extends out from the stage, right to the back of the room, with everyone bouncing up and down and joining in with the band. “Nottingham, lets see your hands in the air for the best Rock ‘n’ Roll night this side of the Atlantic” screams Wane before they deliver “Hell to L.A”
There is a lot of love from the crowd to this band and their own enthusiasm for what they are doing is clearly spreading around the room as they move through their set list. “Your fuckin’ ace Nottingham, what are you?” shouts Wane before the crowd scream back “Fuckin’ Ace” then he says “You shouldn’t swear, there are under 14’s in the room. Are there any under 14’s in the room? You win a prize from Forever Never, they are giving prizes out and if you are under 14 it’s your lucky night” there is lots of laughing from the crowd (who apparently are now ALL under 14) the laughing subsides and the band play their tribute song ‘Studio 54’ which is a very catchy track with some extreme guitar playing from Paul and Simon, great drums from Wils and excellent sounding vocals from Wane.
This is quickly followed by ‘Feel it, Heal it’ and ‘Ocean of kings’ which are both introduced with the same good humoured banter with the crowd before hand. “Is Rock ‘n’ Roll alive in Nottingham” asks Wane and the crowd answer him with a unanimous cheer of “Yeah” before he says “This track is called ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll is alive’” This is a really good closing track that is full of energy and great lyrics that are delivered absolutely note perfect.
“ Nottingham, that was our last song. Lets see your fuckin’ hands in the air for Nineteenth Century. Goodnight you have been fucking great Nottingham, Thanks. Forever Never are on next and if you want to make me very happy you can buy one of the Cd’s or Dvd’s we have for sale”
Kate..UP-LOAD.co.uk
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