Generator III - The Inn On The Square - Barnstaple - 12/7/08
North Devon’s indie music scene has needed a kick in the balls for a while now. Tonight’s gig at Barnstaple’s The Underground is proof that it is currently being given just that by a new generation of brilliant up and coming bands, thirsty to give the major label big boys a run for their money, and finally give North Devon some tunes to be proud of.
Pretty Jacks stalk onto the stage to start tonight’s proceedings, their front man coming off like Luke Kook on amphetamines, as the rest of the band lay into their whirlwind onslaught of girlfriend-stealing indie rock’n’roll, like The Wombats snarling younger brothers, gagging for a fight for the fun of it, their insanely catchy alternative pop songs drilling into the heads of the gathered crowd for a full thirty minute onslaught.
Next up are The Outfit, returning from a year long hiatus for tonight’s show with Radiohead doing Joy Division guitars and an appropriately demonic drummer they deliver a constant run of essential, intelligent New Wave tunes, offering a more serene option to the rest of tonight’s bill, although with every bit the same excitement and vigour, effortlessly moving from Smiths-esque jangly melancholy to straight out anthemic rock.
Afterwards, Severe Zero give us their punk set, I‘m told they‘re good if you like that kind of thing.
And we move quickly on to tonight’s headliners Load.Click.Shoot, bringing with them a stunning lightshow that could possibly put the Hacienda in it’s heyday to shame, shaking the room like Test Icicles pissing over Klaxons’ Atlantis To Interzone as Foals jealously watch on, music so A.D.D. suffering it’s hard to conceive of it being created in sleepy Barnstaple town, an absolute synth, keyboard and spiky guitar fest, taking the night to it’s all too soon climax.
Actually, The Liquidators played too but I missed them, soz.
- By Richey Day.
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