{"id":8732,"date":"2019-10-09T05:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2019-10-05T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T18:06:22","slug":"pulled-apart-by-horses-baba-naga-dactyl-terra-newport-le-pub-2nd-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"Pulled Apart By Horses\/Baba Naga\/Dactyl Terra \u2013 Newport, Le Pub \u2013 2nd October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Next month marks the 30th<\/sup> anniversary of me and RPM\u2019s Nev Brooks attending gigs together, our itinerary starting back in November 1989 when we were lucky enough to catch a just about to break big Mudhoney annihilate a packed to the rafters Bristol Bierkeller. Also on the bill that night, the cosmic psychedelia of The Telescopes, and in many ways tonight\u2019s show bears more than just the odd striking similarity to that most memorable of first date nights.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the fact that three decades on Brooks is somehow still putting up with my antics but that tonight\u2019s show also perfectly blends those punk rock\/psychedelia genres once again. Tonight is also long since sold out as two years on from the release for their excellent \u2018The Haze\u2019 album Leeds based rockers Pulled Apart By Horses look to premiere brand new songs from their yet to be recorded fifth studio album by playing a series of fourteen shows across the UK in some the most intimate venues they\u2019ve played in years.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to see Le Pub\u2019s live room packed out for the arrival of local openers Dactyl Terra (geddit?) too, a trio who in turn proceed to deliver a size ten alt-rock boot up the arse of all the UK bands who currently think it\u2019s cool to wear cowboy hats and wax their facial hair whilst worshiping at the temple of 70s and 80s hard rock dinosaurs (sorry I couldn\u2019t resist it).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Which also rather tenuously brings me to tour main support, Baba Naga. This trio is already renowned as Sheffield\u2019s finest exponents of pagan doom and are also a band I quite often see being compared to\u2026 ahem Pink Floyd. So, whilst there\u2019s certainly a few quieter Floyd-like transient moments during tonight\u2019s all too brief 30 minute set, for me the Babas have much more in common with the aforementioned Telescopes or perhaps \u2018Gravity Grave\u2019 era The Verve whilst at their more rockier moments they actually kind of remind me of The Heads from just over the other side of the river Severn.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s no between song Baba banter just the sound of their intro tape looping away like some kind of hypnotic mantra and as a result I have no idea what songs the guys played tonight, I just found that I had this compelling urge to go\u00a0 buy myself a Baba Naga tour kaftan at the end of their set\u2026ha!<\/p>\n

Owning all of the Pulled Apart By Horses albums but never actually having seen them live before tonight I really wasn\u2019t too sure what to expect as the band stepped up onto Le Pub\u2019s legendary low stage, and I must admit my first impressions weren\u2019t that positive at all. Opening with new track \u2018Pipe Dream\u2019 singer Tom Hudson complete with matching black jacket and \u00be length trousers (keeping his ankles cool obviously) seemed kind of uninterested in the events at hand exuding an almost Kasabian-like arrogant swagger, that is until the track suddenly changed pace half way through and he instantly transformed into one of my new favourite frontmen, marching through the packed crowd mic in hand barking out lyrical orders to his devoted followers, he is now equal parts Iggy Pop and \u00a0Matt Caughtran.<\/p>\n

\u2018First World Problems\u2019 quickly follows and this along with \u2018Rinse & Repeat\u2019 aired later on after two cuts from \u2018The Haze\u2019 are the perhaps the immediate hits from the (I think?) eight new tracks played tonight, something that is never an easy thing to do, but all of them seem to go down well with the Horses faithful.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The superb 3 minute pop punk anthem \u2018V.E.N.O.M\u2019 is thankfully still in the set being the first song I ever heard by the band back in 2011 on Radio 6 Music and closing things out tonight we have the old school debut album mayhem of \u2018High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive\u2019 and \u2018Punched A Lion In The Throat\u2019 to send everyone home drenched in sweat.<\/p>\n

Of course I\u2019d have liked to have heard some tracks like the immense \u2018Hot Squash\u2019 from \u2018Blood\u2019 \u00a0slotted into tonight\u2019s set, but you know what, the new stuff worked just fine and this must be the first time, since I witnessed The Bronx preview the whole of \u2018Bronx IV\u2019 live long before its release, that such a feat was done with so much aplomb.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I leave Le Pub totally euphoric with what I have just witnessed, and its gigs like this that will always have me bowling back to the car arms laden with merch ready to tell the world what they have been missing out on.<\/p>\n

Pulled Apart By Horses were fucking phenomenal tonight \u2013 FACT!<\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n

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Next month marks the 30th anniversary of me and RPM\u2019s Nev Brooks attending gigs together, our itinerary starting back in November 1989 when we were lucky enough to catch a just about to break big Mudhoney annihilate a packed to the rafters Bristol Bierkeller. Also on the bill that night, the cosmic psychedelia of The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[3652,3651],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-review","tag-le-pub-newport","tag-pulled-apart-by-horses","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","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=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}