Andy G's reveiw of the Middens!
The Dirty Wee Middens - ahhhhhh, what a band!! To say that you can't fail to love this scorching punk band live, may sound like something of a cliche, but it's true. Even before they played a note, you just had to love the way singer and all-round frontman Lee plays the audience ("we're not playing until all you up there come down here") and, sure enough, they comply. Then we're ready to rock, as the band - our favourite red haired bassist (yes, this guy has RED hair!!), the emaciated looking Kung Fu Kenny on lead guitar and the other two who I always forget the names of (sorry guys!), on drums and second guitar - just charge into supernova punk mode as the ever pleasing strains of the seminal "Monster Mash" erupt from the speakers, the whole crowd immediately headshaking, moshing and whatever else the song demands, a whole audience in the palm of the band's hands. After that, it's "Welcome To Zommbietown" and, like the entire set, as infectious and rousing a punk track as they come, Lee's vocals and the band's choruses positively electrifying as you find yourself unable to stand still to the blast of deliciously infectious blazing punk rock that charges at you like a rhino on heat. Thereafter, "Land Of The Dead", the classic "Dead By Dawn" just take you with them as they positively dare you not to be (a) dancing madly (b) smiling like a idiot (c) caught up in their supercharged world. A cover of Dropkick Murphy's "Good Rats" has the whole building shaking as the audience go wild while their own gloriously irreverent and absolutely unforgettable hook that is "Embarassing Wood", one of their best songs that could really take off if ever it got airplay (some chance!!) just tore the roof off, as did the equally brilliant and addictive "Rambo", another classic chorus spewing from the band's arsenal. Finishing on their always popular take on Buzzcocks' "Teenage Kicks" in the form of the wondrously irreverent "Suck My Dick", it was one red hot and smoking gem of a set - and yet I know they can do even better than this! A well earned encore of "Graverobbin' USA" brought the house down and things to a close, with our red haired bassist and second guitarist joining Lee in the crowd, leaving Kenny and drummer to take it there.
You gotta love the controlled chaos but structurally sound way they do things, and take great delight in watching what the band get up to on stage at any given conecert while seeing the audience have such a great time. You just know that if you placed this band in the middle of a festival of 10,000 people who didn't know them, they'd have the whole goddamned arena up and rocking in minutes. As punk bands go, they're a solidly good time and a promotor's dream. let's only hope they get to tour coz there's a punk world out ther waiting to be conquered, and this is the band to do it. As I said, ya just gotta love this band.
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