Sidewinder Saturday 27th September, Silhouette Club. by Albert Dukes

My hopes for a night of quality entertainment at the now well established TUBE night were pretty low, to be honest with you. Having witnessed some truly boring performances, coupled with dreadful sound problems at Sils, I only turned up because I couldn't face a night of bangin' tunes spun by an ex-Take That dancer at t'Welly.

As usual, the sound was poor and needs sorting out if Sils is going to continue putting live entertainment on. But the band was a different matter.

I've heard absolutely nothing about Sidewinder. I couldn't tell you a thing about them, due to them being either new to the scene (which I don't believe, given the crowd was at least three times larger than for any other band I've seen at Sils) or they don't know how to promote themselves. This is a real shame because they were easily the most listenable of any of the local bands I've seen in the past year or so. They're hardly fashionable sounding, being neither punky nor shouty. But it's simply the quality of the songs and the arrangements that draw you in and challenge you not to fall in love with them. There's gang mentality, and they're tight as a gnat's chuff.

Where many local bands are poor copies of national trends, Sidewinder don't fit neatly to a single comparison, unlike say, The Paddingtons, who clearly want to BE the Libertines (sort it out lads, it's like a tribute) and Turismo, who want to be The Coral, Favours, who want to be the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs (admittedly with a bass player). Sidewinder sound like everything and nothing. My notes say The Stone Roses, The Beatles, Country & Western, Psychedelia, Early Floyd and The Who.

For what it's worth, there was energy to spare, and they obviously know how to play, without being musos (three minute pop classics all the way home). A most refreshing change! So, they might be a bit sixties, yeah, but I, along with a good three hundred pop fans, loved the tunes, dug the vibe and got on down and cut some rug like it was the first summer of love all over again.

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