Dressed in what must be an uncomfortably warm stripey jumper Lord energetically bounds around the stage and that unyielding enthusiasm proves to be highly infectious. Yet despite my initial reservations, it’s impossible not to be won over.
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I’ll confess, the band’s brand of emo-styled angst doesn’t really connect with me at first. It’s one of many moments over their set that’s greeted with cheers of adoration. “For a long time we’d say we were from Leeds for people from the South” explains As Sirens Fall vocalist Mikey Lord, “but fuck it, we’re from Keighley”. They look like they’re having an absolute riot too with Robinson and lead guitarist Adam dropping to their knees to worship at the altar of live rock ‘n’ roll. Wrong Way captures the band’s knack for combining big rock guitars with impossibly catchy, pop-inflected hooks. Post-punk basslines throb under a wall of melodic guitars and Jessie Robinson’s passionate, pitch-perfect vocal. The Manchester-based four-piece sound even bigger than they did before as they deliver a set brim-full of energy, melody and soaring, grunge-inspired rock. Scarlet kicked things off last year, so it only feels right that they’re back at the Brudenell tonight. Now restrictions have lifted and Gretel have emerged from hibernation to join Delilah their eyes firmly fixed on world domination. With the band on a kind of enforced hiatus, Tate took it on herself to unleash an album by her rap-rock solo project, Delilah Bon. Of course, one little pandemic wasn’t about to slow down vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and all-round rock & roll queen, Lauren Tate.
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I wasn’t to know at the time but it would be one of the last gigs I’d go to for around 16 long, COVID-heavy months. Andy Brown shares his thoughts for Louder Than War.īack in March 2020, I was standing in this very venue watching Hands Off Gretel tear up the stage with a furiously fun set of punk rock. Hands Off Gretel return to the iconic Brudenell Social Club with a set of impassioned, throat-shredding punk rock & roll. Hands Off Gretel | Scarlet | As Sirens Fall