{"id":2701,"date":"2018-12-12T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:24:04","slug":"henri-herbert-the-fury-red-light-syndrome-abertillery-the-dollshouse-1st-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Henri Herbert & The Fury\/Red Light Syndrome \u2013 Abertillery, The Dollshouse \u2013 1st December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nevermind Bob Harris infamously declaring the New York Dolls as \u201cmock rock\u201d, in the run-up to tonight when asking Mrs H if she wanted to come along with me she took one listen to \u2018Pocket Venus\u2019 by tonight\u2019s headliners and promptly declared the music to be too \u201cplinky plonk\u201d for her taste.<\/p>\n

I mean c\u2019mon, Bobby cunting Crush this most certainly is not. So, let me expand a little to avoid any possible further confusion.<\/p>\n

Henri Herbert & The Fury is the three-piece outfit that the piano playing phenomenon (whose name forms the basis of the band) put together after the Jim Jones Revue disbanded in 2014, and since then he\u2019s been channelling his influences of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, Tom Waits and Otis Spann into an infectious mix of all the genres these guys specialised in. Got it? Good, now perhaps we can begin properly.<\/p>\n

Opening up tonight\u2019s show is Red Light Syndrome a guitar based four piece formed around the songwriting talents of ex-This System Kills guitarist Craigy (Two Tins) Rees. Playing their second show to date the most immediate thing that hits me when the band kicks off with \u2018Still Nothing Yet\u2019 is just how much they have gelled as a unit since their slightly nervous debut (which I also caught) just a few weeks earlier. Craigy appears much more at ease with his still new dual role as frontman and guitarist and proudly sporting a Husker Du baseball hat he wears his influences, well, on his head actually. To sum up, the band\u2019s sound though you have to look a little wider than Minnesota\u2019s finest to the likes of The Lemonheads and perhaps even Midway Still and Leatherface, as they are certainly on the more melodic side of the fence when it comes to the songwriting.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Its when Craigy feels at ease enough to joke with the audience that the true protentional of the band fully shines through though and in their self-dubbed \u201demo\u201d song \u2018Train Wreck\u2019 they have a song just waiting to become a scene favourite. Closing out proceedings with the seemingly apt \u2018Heartburn\u2019 (an earlier consumed fishcake was also playing havoc with my digestive system) this was a performance that stuck in my head for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n

Returning to The Dollshouse after playing \u201cthe gig of the tour\u201d last time around, Henri Herbert & The Fury are in no mood for messing around tonight demanding the already bustling crowd to enjoy the night as a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll show should be and not as a spectator sport, and I must admit I\u2019m immediately swept up in the furore generated by the band. In fact, it isn\u2019t until they hit the slightly slower and broodier strut of \u2018Bad Blood\u2019 midway into their set that I suddenly remember I\u2019m actually supposed to be reviewing tonight and haven\u2019t noted a single song. Oops, but I guess you understand this is exciting stuff you can\u2019t stand still to, right?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Back in the review zone then and the covers of \u2018Milkshake Mademoiselle\u2019 and (the main set ending) \u2018Fire\u2019 are perhaps two of the most defining moments from tonight\u2019s set as it takes a real special talent to make songs by Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimi Hendrix sound like your own, something the hugely talented Herbert and his Furies do with every bead of sweat they generate here tonight.<\/p>\n

Returning for no less than five (or maybe it was six) encores it\u2019s simply impossible to stand still when Henri Herbert & The Fury are in town, and at times tonight it\u2019s like the BBC have brought \u2018Strictly\u2019 all the to the Valleys for a one-off rock \u2018n\u2019 roll dance off, all I\u2019m missing is my regular dancing partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlinky plonk\u201d \u2026 I ask you.<\/p>\n

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

Nevermind Bob Harris infamously declaring the New York Dolls as \u201cmock rock\u201d, in the run-up to tonight when asking Mrs H if she wanted to come along with me she took one listen to \u2018Pocket Venus\u2019 by tonight\u2019s headliners and promptly declared the music to be too \u201cplinky plonk\u201d for her taste. I mean c\u2019mon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[873],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-henri-herbert","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}