Reviews

Scarlet Carmina

First up, when I arrived, were the young Worcester rockers Scarlet Carmina who in my view are coming on in leaps and bounds. They're the band with the Voicebox rubber-tube fx-thingy on guitars.

Rase

I'd seen Dan Greenaway play a couple of times in Droitwich last Saturday. This week it was time to swap his acoustic for a battered and well-travelled Telecaster, as he fronted up his alter-persona rock band Rase. Quality stuff, this, from Dan and the guys - but I was momentarily distracted when some guy tried to use the phonebox right next to the full-on PA to make a call - I didn't have the heart to ask him whether it was worth while! Also, I was a trifle suspicious of the young girls screaming after each song - I just wonder if they were being paid by the decibel...

Crooked Empire

By this time the wine-bar opposite had emptied its punters onto the street - so it was a good-sized crowd that caught the full blast of the best rock'n'rolling set I've yet heard from The Crooked Empire. This foursome seem to be improving all the time, and well worth the girly screaming that they also received!

RockDog Project

I'm glad to say that the weather held off for most of the afternoon. The last band, before I caught the bus back, was Bromsgrove's Rock-Dog Project - nothing to do with The Rock-it Dogs (wonder what's happened to them?). This likeable foursome crank out their own numbers in an unashamedly vintage 70's punk mould - nice if you like that sort of thing - which of course I do! I hope to hear more from these geezers soon.