{"id":10450,"date":"2020-01-27T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2020-01-22T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:06:47","slug":"giuda-hard-wax-bullybones-bristol-louisiana-19th-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10450","title":{"rendered":"Giuda\/Hard Wax\/BullyBones \u2013 Bristol, Louisiana \u2013 19th January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re just over three weeks into 2020 and tonight I\u2019m ticking off gig number three just 24 hours after a BellRays show that will probably end up in my gigs of the year by heading across the Severn estuary for a night of bovver rock courtesy of Italian stallions Giuda and UK (angelic?) upstarts Hard Wax.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Also on the bill and opening proceedings tonight are local(ish) four piece BullyBones who take the stage looking like villains from a long lost episode of The Sweeney and specialise in a brand of 60\u2019s garage rock perhaps more akin to last night\u2019s headliner than tonight\u2019s.\u00a0 A sneaky cover of Gary Glitter\u2019s \u2018Do You Wanna Touch Me\u2019 mid set though manages to win over pretty much anyone who wasn\u2019t on the side of the BullyBones bad boys. Driven by the powerhouse rhythm section of drummer Owain Casey and bassist Illy Webster (who somehow manages to wear his Rickenbacker even higher than Joey DeMaio) guitarist Aaron Lee paints a very Pebbles-y picture over which singer Charlie Pullinger lays bare his Iggy meets Jack Daniels (as in Alan Lake\u2019s character in Slade In Flame) soul.\u00a0 The lads have a new 7\u201d single due soon and I can\u2019t help but wonder if it\u2019s time to dig those old turtle neck sweaters out of the sideboard as we might be about to witness an all new Beat generation with BullyBones leading it.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Quickly swapping my Chelsea boots for some 14 eye oxblood Dr Marten\u2019s and I\u2019m all set up for Hard Wax to deliver some of their solid gold bovver rock anthems, having really enjoyed the band\u2019s \u2018This Is The Sound\u2019 album released at the tail end of 2019. \u00a0Live, though what this still relatively \u201cnew\u201d Hard Wax line up might be missing in both stage craft and attitude is thankfully made up for by those songs, with the highlights being the title track and \u2018Have a Good Time\u2019. It is, however, the tracks I\u2019d not heard before, like \u2018Bootboy Stomp\u2019 and \u2018Kings Of The Weekend\u2019 that actually stand out, which makes me wonder why I\u2019ve not yet ventured further into the band\u2019s back catalogue?<\/p>\n

A band I\u2019ve very much been with from the start are tonight\u2019s headliners Giuda, I remember when \u2018Racey Roller\u2019 first graced the deathdecks at Uber Rock Towers (as was) a full decade or so ago and it just made all of us stop in our tracks and ask \u201cwhat the fuck is this?\u201d\u00a0 Very much a band out of time, I\u2019ve witnessed the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll fever that the Italians have been spreading at festivals across Europe and at selected UK headline shows, but never before tonight at a gig within a half hour drive of my home and never before in a venue as tightly packed as Bristol\u2019s Louisiana.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With the prospect of the band\u2019s boot stomping anthems delivering the upstairs venue into the bar below I take up a place near the edge of the front few rows (which is refreshing to see is about 80% female) safe in the knowledge that if I\u2019m going to re-enact the \u2018Shake Your Foundations\u2019 music video then I\u2019m going down dancing, and from opener \u2018Overdrive\u2019 (with all its glorious and rather apt AC\/DC overtones) for the next 60 minutes that\u2019s pretty much what everyone does. There\u2019s no time for chat it\u2019s all about great music as the likes of \u2018Back Home\u2019 and \u2018Born Under A Bad Sign\u2019 whistle past our ears like rock \u2018n\u2019 roll rockets and I defy anyone to not have their thumbs in their belt loops for the likes of \u2018Number Ten\u2019 and \u2018Teenage Rebel\u2019. The only problem is it\u2019s all over way too soon, and after a four song encore we\u2019re left to all wander off down the banks of the River Avon all Warriors-like to the strains of Joe Walsh\u2019s \u2018In The City\u2019 booming from the PA. Still as endings go that\u2019s as near perfect as they come, I just wish nights like this could go on for E.V.A (Ouch).<\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n

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