The
future of rock and roll is not to be found on the cover of a
magazine.
Neither
will it be found on many of the summer festival tents.
Instead
it will be found on any stage that Tragic City Thieves perform on.
It's been
a while since I have seen the band play, and their much welcomed
return to the live arena was far more exciting than even I had
anticipated.
Before I
would have classed them as the best sleazy glam rock band that the
west coast of Scotland had ever spawned.
Now I'm
going to take that back.
Instead
they are the best that the UK has to offer.
(Well the
best I have seen.)
The
comment was made during their set that this is a band that shouldn't
be playing at a bar and club level, and I fully endorse that view.
While the
current Guns and Roses are looking for £50 per head for a show it is
a fact that Tragic City Thieves would rag doll Axl and his pick up
band from here to next week without breaking a sweat.
If they
break a sweat then any big rock band you care to mention should
shudder in fear.
You want
the fire then here it is.
I could
lavish so much praise on them that readers would consider that it was
a pastiche of a review, but ten minutes into watching them perform
and the acceptance of the truth would hit them hard, and the truth is
that no matter how much hyperbolic praise I shower them with it will
still fall short of the reality.
Much of
the set comprised of material that will be on their forthcoming
sophomore release and will be new to an audience, but while that can
normally be the kiss of death to a performance due to the
unfamiliarity they exact opposite happened here.
Instead
I'm left craving hearing them again, and I quite literally can't wait
for the album to be released.
There's a
huge step forward in the quality of the material, and that's not to
say that the original album was lacking in quality.
More so
it's to try and convey that if the punters liked that then they
better hold onto their hats as this one is going to be all killer.
I count
myself very lucky that so far in this year I have seen some fantastic
live performances and here was yet another to add to the list.
Tragic
City Thieves have to break through to a wider audience.
I don't
want to keep them to myself as a grubby little secret.
I want
the world to know about them.
Fans of
everyone from the New York Dolls to The Dead Boys, from Turbonegro to
The Dwarves, from The Stooges to Bowie are going to love them.
This is
the future of rock and roll.
People
just need to wake up to that and get with it.
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