{"id":22720,"date":"2023-07-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22720"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:00:25","slug":"flyscreen-deathtraps-le-pub-newport-9th-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22720","title":{"rendered":"Flyscreen\/Deathtraps \u2013 Le Pub, Newport \u2013 9th<\/sup> July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It may well be 13 years since Flyscreen last played Newport (rock city) but it\u2019s got to be nearly three decades since I last saw the band live, and back then, not only was I sharing a transit van with the boys in the band playing shows up and down the UK, but their line up also featured one Fraser Munro. Yup that\u2019s the same chap you probably now know best (well if you\u2019re reading this anyway) for co\/fronting and playing bass in maximum velocity garage punk rockers Deathtraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although tonight he\u2019s no longer doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No, he\u2019s not left the band, it just that Veej, Matty and Fraser have gone and acquired themselves a bass player – step forward Namaan. Which means that Munro has gained two strings and is now co\/fronting and playing guitar, with the resulting racket they now create sounding like it could level not just tall buildings. but whole cities, Newport being the first\u2026. of many, I hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, for the second time in a week I\u2019m witnessing the Le Pub sound system dealing out some critical noise levels, with the needles well and truly in the err\u2026 red for \u2018Red Eyes & Black Kisses\u2019 and to some here tonight, perhaps witnessing the band for the first time, this must have come as something of a sonic shock to the system, as it was for those of us who have seen them many times, with the early inclusion of \u2018Hell Of A Girl\u2019 from Matty and Veej\u2019s old band The Sick Livers. I thought this tune might have been just a one-off set list inclusion for their recent blast at Slugfest (where they were still a trio and also played a rollicking cover of Judas Priest\u2019s \u2018Breaking The Law\u2019), but no, here it is loud and proud, for a whole new generation of gig goers to lose their shit to. Tidy darts!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elsewhere the band\u2019s sub thirty-minute aural rip ride flew by in the blink of an eye with the likes of \u2018She Said\u2019 and \u2018Rip Em Off\u2019, from their exceptional last record \u2018Appetite For Prescription\u2019, giving us all bloody noses, whilst the ever present oldie \u2018Fuck The Cool Kids\u2019 once again helped shatter the venue\u2019s swear jar in just under three minutes flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s fast, its furious and its totally fucked-up rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, what more could you want on a Saturday night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always find it kind of irritating when a venue suddenly fills up for a headliner, but then Flyscreen are a what you might call a \u201cmore commercial\u201d sounding musical proposition than the band that has just blown the bloody doors off Le Pub\u2019s live room. It\u2019s most probably why they were snapped up by MCA during the mid \u201890s and why they still have enough of a diehard following in da Port to sell out tonight\u2019s gig, well in advance of showtime. It also doesn\u2019t hurt their popularity one bit that their song \u2018Carl Zeiss Jena\u2019 (which was also a top three hit in Germany pop pickers) is also an anthem dedicated to this very city\u2019s football team, and when it\u2019s played here tonight mid-set you can almost taste the passion in the room. But wait, I\u2019m getting ahead of myself here, because there\u2019s much more to Flyscreen than just that one song, as opener \u2018You Sons Of Bitches Shut-up\u2019 quickly proves. Taken from the band\u2019s 2005 album, \u2018Only Dirty People Wash\u2019, an album of ten songs I\u2019d somehow totally missed at the time of release, this tune just like \u2018Popsong Singalong\u2019 the minor hit single from the album, which also (ouch!!!) pops up mid-set, are both post-New Seattle beauties of the highest order.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There\u2019s of course always going to be the slightest whiff of nineties nostalgia in the air when most of your back catalogue was written in that decade, but when you have songs as strong as \u2018Chopperquad\u2019, \u2018Ugly Freak Of Nature\u2019 (not the version where singer\/bassist Paul suddenly sang the words to \u2018Homo\u2019 over it), the always amazing \u2018Biffbamaboomalamababe\u2019 and \u2018Snowbunny\u2019 in your set list\u2026who cares? That\u2019s because, even whilst Tony, the band\u2019s powerhouse drummer, is normally residing in San Francisco these days, the quartet (completed by guitarists Dave and Marc) have somehow managed to shoehorn recording an all-new record, into the time he\u2019s briefly been back in the UK for tonight\u2019s gig, and after hearing the first fruits of this session \u2018I Love Everybody\u2019 tonight, it sounds like it\u2019s going to be an absolute banger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flyscreen\u2019s forty odd minute set here tonight once again illustrated to everyone present just why they really should have been up there with the likes of Manic Street Preachers and Feeder in the popularity stakes. But that\u2019s the UK music industry for you eh folks. It\u2019s a shit business\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

It may well be 13 years since Flyscreen last played Newport (rock city) but it\u2019s got to be nearly three decades since I last saw the band live, and back then, not only was I sharing a transit van with the boys in the band playing shows up and down the UK, but their line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[104,8303,761,208],"class_list":["post-22720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-deathtraps","tag-flyscreen","tag-johnny-hayward","tag-le-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720","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=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22730,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/22730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}