Saturday 25 April - and I would probably have been out anyway but a lovely lady I know is the wife of the lead singer in Selby/Leeds band $lash Vega$ and she kindly provided us with flyers to get into The Duchess with a £2 discount, so we were definitely up for that!
SV are a five piece who seem reluctant to divulge their full names (you know who you are Ian), so the line-up is: Ginna (vocals), Holmes (drums), Robbie G (guitar), Mike Infinitum (bass) and Oz (another guitar). Ginna looks a bit like Brian Placebo/Keith Prodigy and used to play drums with Leeds outfit Phluid. They have recently released an album, This Is Radio Revolution, which should be available to purchase soon.
Musically they were a motorway pile-up between G 'n' R, Motley Crue and Poison, their sounds falling somewhere in the metal-pop genre. Whilst the lyrics were pretty much lost in the noise, I certainly enjoyed Vive La Revolution with its superb guitar solo, Beat The Disease, and the two songs with Batman references; Joker and Two Face (or should that be Two-Face?)
Next up were favourite 98Pages a York-bases power blues trio consisting of: Martyn Fillingham (vocals/guitar), Jase Brooks (bass), and Andy Black (drums). Basically they played pretty much all their debut album, Broken homes and the halfway house. They play superb, are better live than on plastic, and are musically very tight now. Martyn's voice in particular has a marvelously gravelly tone, or he might be going down with something.
Finally, the headliners were Heavens Basement (and on SpaceFace). Again, we've seen these before and enjoyed them previously. HB are: Richie Heavanz (vocals), Jonny Rocker (guitar), Rob Randell (bass), Chris Rivers (drums), and Sid Glover (lead guitar). Once more they didn't fail to disappoint, with Richie, a master of stage-craft, prowling the stage and whipping the crowd into an enthusiastic frenzy. Quite why they haven't managed to push out an album yet is beyond me, they certainly have enough material including; Tear Your Heart Out, Executioner's Day, Graduation, Saint Routine, Fear Of Getting Off, and Reign On My Parade. Excellent stuff.
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