GIG 0019: Heroes On A Beach @ The Metropole, Colwyn Bay

 

Saw Heroes on A Beach play their debut gig at The Metropole in the Bay. A great place for a venue (sadly under used for such purposes) as the bands set up on the dancefloor, which had a slightly raised balcony partly circumnavigating it - a bit like the Roundhouse in Camden.

It’s a difficult one this as they’re fronted by Steve Jones who kindly trims my mohican at the Lox Box; we talk about music and he has a bit of history once fronting the almost famous Harvest Moon (who released a single on the Charisma label and recorded a John Peel session).

So I tried to like them (HoAB), and played the tape back a couple of times to familiarise myself with their songs, but it’s like telling yourself you like your mate’s band, or telling your mate you like his band, but really you think they’re shit. 

Sorry Steve, I loved you guys but hated your music.

[Steve aka Pablo, eventually moved to Caernarfon and formed Profiad, and also hired out PAs. He's also a great painter and sells his creations at the art shop he runs]

[The Met, as it was locally known as, catered more for the trendy elements of the town, before giving way to the elderly twats and becoming another fucking care home].

GIG 0018: That Voodoo at The Bee Hotel, Rhyl

 

Saw That Voodoo play at The Bee Hotel in Rhyl, a bit of a dive of a place just by the train station, (we jumped the train from the Bay). 

Took my little tape recorder to bootleg the gig cos if I’m gonna take being a fanzine editor seriously then I need to support local bands and cover them in the next issue of Crud. 

The band came from Llandudno and formed last year after MCM split and they featured Andre Valero (bass,voc), Matt Davies (gtr,voc), Simon (drms), Julie (keys,voc), Sally (b.voc). 

Also featured at some point Shaun Davies who later joined the marines (not doubt after watching Full Metal Jacket, which hit the big screens later this year). 

That Voodoo had a delay pedal rigged up to the microphone that made some cool effects. They were definitely influenced by B.A.D. and Spear of Destiny, two bands I didn’t at the time particularly rank highly, apart from SOD’s Liberator, which we slam danced ourselves into bruised oblivion on the Bistro dancefloor. 

Matt later formed Charlex Dexter Ward Experiment, and sadly died in 2002.