The Glitterati, with Unitus, Borderline and The Smoking Hearts.

One of the most Heavily advertised gigs for a while, with all the making of a great set of bands starting with THE SMOKING HEARTS , this has all the ingredients of a great line up. A lot of people were recommending this band to me, which isn’t usually a good yardstick but here, they were right.
Usually only permitted short bursts of vocals with one of his other bands- their lead singer (Rodd Lethal), showed how much character he has, which just enthused on stage when not incumberated with having to play an instrument. Sharpie Rotixx the bassist amazed me in just how much he used up the stage, running all over as if trying to break in a new pair of trainers made from live piranha fish! Also The Diamond Dogg him self hailing from one of my fave but now defunked punk outfits – Peanukle, put in a good lead guitar performance, as did Wild Mark E Bosshog on Rhythm. It was as if the band members wanted to form a band in which they get to play different instruments than they usually do, apart that is from Dr Spark L Horse sticking rigidly to his trusty drum kit. It must have been a little nerve racking being one of their first gigs and although I enjoyed these even better than I thought I would, you know what – I recon there going to get even better.

It all seemed to be going fine for BORDERLINE then I saw some of them laughing and realized it was going a bit pear. These were the odd wheels on the gig trolley – the band with its different style of music to the other bands, which broke the sameness and added an emotive variation. I have to say, I really don’t give a fetid dingo’s cuss whether this was a bad gig for them, as I’ve seen them play blinding gigs and know what there capable of.
I noticed they bought quite a few fans down to see them as well! They ran through a mixture of songs including one of my faves ‘Pile Up’ to the more quicker paced numbers from their latest C.D. They seemed to use up the stage to good effect, putting a lot of energy into the performance especially from the singer/guitarist shouting from the very depths and giving it his all, with some furious paced drumming complimenting this as well.
I’m not quite sure what the mess up was, but that’s probably because I don’t actually care. It was Borderline ‘Live’ If I wanted an over polished performance I would have stayed in and listened to their studio C.D. instead!

UNITUS were probably wondering why people wanted to move up front this time, but stayed away from the front last time they played – this was probably due to the fact that last time they played, the lead singers bollocks were hanging from his ripped strides, sending the punters to the back of the room. A sturdy pair of strides were attired this time and the crowd were loving it. With a sound rougher than a war rubbed Berlin bunker and moving round faster than a western bar room brawl, they all seem to share a human interest in seeing how long the body can jump about with out stopping. Their front man always has that unexpected edge of danger about him; you just don’t know what he’s going to do next, with his glass of water in hand and dangerous gestures. The water was emptied to the mosh pit which soon evaporated making me wonder if some poor kid would receive a crack on the cranium with the glass, it was put down safely though, making me think there’s an illusion of organized chaos to the on stage debauchery.

I thought THE GLITTERATI were like a glam band but with out the make-up. I don’t want you to think I’m just waving the banner for the local scene, but I really didn’t think these were anything special. O.K. they have got record deals and tour with big cool bands but that may be traces of lucky buggerism over skill.
They got their classics out, like ‘Do You Love Yourself’, from their single and ‘Here Comes A Close-up’. In places they sounded like a great rock n roll band with dirty sleazy glammy overtones, enthusing attitude but not unlike loads of other bands of their type with a pedestrian, ephemeral feel. O.K. not bad but nothing new and more for the girlies I believe.

Review by Keith www.bedfordmetal.tk