{"id":13517,"date":"2020-10-05T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2020-10-02T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:01:47","slug":"the-wildhearts-30-year-itch-round-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13517","title":{"rendered":"The Wildhearts \u2013 \u201830 Year Itch\u2019 (Round Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If 2019 was the year the music world once again woke up to The Wildhearts, then 2020 really should have been the year that they cemented their position as the very best seven-legged live band the UK has to offer.<\/p>\n

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Luckily for me The Wildhearts were one of the last bands I got to see live before the world was consumed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and now when I think back to that amazing Friday night headline slot at Butlin\u2019s Punk & Alternative Weekend – where playing to a largely partisan audience they made so many new friends \u2013 I take one look at the track listing of \u201930 Year Itch\u2019 (the band\u2019s soon to be released double live album) and I must admit I can\u2019t help get a little robot chubby on at the prospect of hearing the band delivering the goods once again\u2026albeit right here in my living room.<\/p>\n

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Consisting of 17 tracks spanning the length and breadth of the band\u2019s (almost) three-decade long career – and thankfully avoiding some of the perhaps more obvious tracks – this album was recorded across both The Renaissance Men and Diagnosis tours undertaken by the band in 2019 and achieves what every great live album sets out to achieve by making you feel like you are right back in the audience stage front and centre (don\u2019t worry though as other crowd positions are available if the pit is a bit too rough for you). Plus choosing to work once again with the wizard that is Dave Draper really does add plenty of sonic salt \u2018n\u2019 shake to proceedings, making this one of the most remarkable sounding live albums I\u2019ve heard since Exit_International\u2019s \u2018Live At Le Pub\u2019.\u00a0 Anyone spot the connection?<\/p>\n

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From the furry boxing glove opener that is \u2018Dislocated\u2019 through to the set closing – best song ever with a music video filmed on a flatbed truck – \u2018I Wanna Go Where The People Go\u2019 there is hardly a second to catch your breath as riff after motherfucking riff hit you from every direction, and whilst \u2018Let \u2018Em Go\u2019 might not be in my list of all-time favourite Wildhearts\u2019 songs it\u2019s impossible not to be swept along in the moment and I suddenly find myself singing along at the top of my voice.<\/p>\n

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Highlights? Well hearing the likes of the sublimely brutal \u2018Urge\u2019 and err anthemic \u2018Anthem\u2019 live is most welcome in my house, whilst the huge singalongs that are \u2018Sick Of Drugs\u2019 and \u2018Vanilla Radio\u2019 are just designed to have you bouncing down the street when you plug this sucker into your in-car stereo system.\u00a0 Of the deeper cuts aired here \u2018The Revolution Will Be Televised\u2019 and \u2018The Jackson Whites\u2019 perfectly capture the band\u2019s latter years, whilst in \u2018Diagnosis\u2019 (which seems to be\u00a0 everyone\u2019s favourite song from 2019\u2019s \u2018Renaissance Men\u2019 album) the guys have written perhaps their most \u2018Earth V\u2019s\u2019 era sounding song in many a long year, and thus perhaps unintentionally brings them sonically full circle.<\/p>\n

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Whatever you may think about this point though in this current rich vein of form The Wildhearts really are a 30-year itch you can\u2019t help but scratch, and what more, if you were lucky enough to pre-order this bad boy from the band\u2019s website you should have also have received a bonus 4 track CD of tracks not included on the album including a blistering \u2018Top Of The World\u2019 plus a pogotastic \u2018Shame On You\u2019 before \u2018Nothing Changes But The Shoes\u2019 and \u2018My Baby Is A Headfuck\u2019 sends yours truly ambling off down memory lane via two tracks that still sound as awesome as they did when they first got me into The Wildhearts all those years ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201830 Year Itch\u2019 is truly amazing stuff! Make sure you are in on the celebrations when the double album goes back on sale via the band\u2019s website soon.<\/p>\n

Buy ’30 Year Itch’ Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If 2019 was the year the music world once again woke up to The Wildhearts, then 2020 really should have been the year that they cemented their position as the very best seven-legged live band the UK has to offer.   Luckily for me The Wildhearts were one of the last bands I got to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2396,1878,791,1818,3181,790,1710,226],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-cj-wildheart","tag-danny-mccormack","tag-ginger-wildheart","tag-new-album","tag-rich-battersby","tag-round-records","tag-rpm-online","tag-the-wildhearts","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13522,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions\/13522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}