Saturday 8th November 2003, Bedford Esquires.
First on stage tonight was one of Bedford’s newest bands on the scene,
THE DELICATE CHILDREN
Having played the same venue just 2 weeks earlier, this band just keep improving.With a fusion of many influences from alternative + rock genres. They managed to put together a good opening set that impressed the local crowd, even getting a bit of a ‘mosh pit action’ by the end of the set after some technical difficulties during the middle. To sum up I think this style with solid heavy guitar riffs, and the lead lines comparable in style + quality to Muse, Placebo, and occasionally – even System, all rounded off with a vocalist who is not afraid to improvise to get a good sound – Rock On!
Second up was
VOLUNTEERS
A band which sadly, - I was disappointed with. Having been present at the sound check I was ready for this band to really kick things off after the ‘Children’ because I knew that they had a really good sound, the crowd seemed to stay with it though, so they weren’t that much of a dead duck, and lets face it - who watches a dead duck? – not even its mother … she just fly’s off depressed.The mighty Hard-core band
IMPACT
followed with their usual on and off stage debauchery, not I thought as many people in the turn out this time and it was pleasing to see that after a few gigs now at this venue, they are starting to amass their own Bedford following as well as their local St. Neots and nearer local followers, ‘bloody rite n all’. There was a lively mosh pit and the singer spotted one of the younger members of the audience and got him up on stage to treat himself to a stage dive (heh heh – nice one Kit), which I’m sure made his night.Review by Phil Jones.