Friday 14th October 05 - The Subways at The Asylum contd By Andy Tullock

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The common belief of modern music that your live performances have to be as good as anything manufactured in the studio is known to freely by every act that graces a mic nowadays. Whilst it's a vane attempt to strain every vocal to make it sound as pure, or gimmicks galore to hid the inadequacies that have been papered over with glorified guitars.

But with this band there's no acknowledgement of this fact, just a shining love of the music they play and a contagious confidence that, yes they will make it. And anyone else that was at the Asylum on Friday 14th October, would agree with them.

For any that had any little doubt they would've been convincingly bowled over by the bands miniature encore that ended with a massive recreation of their highest charting single so far, Rock and Roll Queen, which not only had every single hand in the air, an body and heart pumping but every lip shouting in an ignorant bliss at their new found anthem. Then when lead singer Lunn decided that, having already shed his top halfway through a winding set, that it would now be a good time to emulate his stage dive from earlier; which had come complete with guitar solo.

With a melodramatic fake run-up he hurled his body in a slow-motion Matrix style fling, body-flopping into an opened arm, and more then willing, public. The limbs that belonged to these followers bedded his body, wet from every bit of effort from the last hour, and bobbed it where it was until instructed to send it to the back of the aforementioned pit, where a mysterious, middle-aged admirer, ideas anyone? stood nodding. A small hand-shake, followed by an all together more emotional hug which was felt by every owner of envious eyes that gazed on, still bouncing signalled an end to a night of memorable activity.

Or so we all thought, for then just as you wondered how Lunn would send himself back out in better style, the answer came when the Steve Irwin wannabe clambered all over the railings that were supporting dehydrated, reinvigorated youngsters, who were, all credit to them, still trying to bounce. Their idol then scaled the heights as far as he could to situate himself on the top of the majestic that had stood proud through the night. From here the messiah orchestrated his people for one last adrenaline rush, before sheepishly climbing down.

With all things being symmetrical, it was only fair that the other sides speakers were also able to go to Sound School on Monday boasting that they supported the new hero of Hulls educated common folk. This was followed by an award winning thank you to the audience who more then played their part in the performance, like footballs twelfth man, they became the fourth, fifth & sixth member that it sounded like, for so much of the night, which the band had. And don't be surprised to hear a similar speech at next years Brits, if the recognition that is deserved has reached this trio by then.

I, for one, would close the books tomorrow because there is something special here. Ask me again in a week, when I'll have witnessed one of their nearest challengers, The Ordinary Boys, at the same venue, but it will have to be something equally special. Because these kids did good, the only thing they've got going against them is my time keeping, and The Man's cruel grip.

But he may have an emerging group of British talent that will induce many sickies and re-route careers that will cripple his economy; and that my friend, is the American Dream.

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