The following article appeared in todays Evening Gazette newspaper.
Unfashionably late for things but sometimes it pays to be tardy, especially where gigs are concerned.
Jul 11th 2008 by Alan Little, Evening Gazette
Flyers for the most laid back event of the year at the Clarendon, Hartlepool, last weekend said doors open 8pm. I arrived at 8.30pm but was sent back downstairs with the bloke on the door giving me his best Carpenters palm off, "We've only just begun." In fact, the first band didn't actually arrive on stage until 10.30pm.
2 MANY UNITS are a young band that obviously think very carefully about their whole sound and on stage presence. As well as hammering out tight riffs, the bass player wandered around the audience while the drummer did a spot of sword-swallowing.
We were now into the reformation phase of the evening and two blasts from the past.
After 25 years lying dormant, Darlington's LAST JUST CAUSE came back with a flurry and showed the tracks from the celebrated Skins'n'Punks album can still have a resonance in the 21st century. Old school punks maybe, but Last Just Cause even treated us to new material - clearly they've not just reformed to dwell on past glories.
Returning after two-and-a-half decades must have made THEE STRAWBERRY MYNDE feel a whole lot better about their ten year hiatus. The three-piece stepped back in the ring with all the old assurance, even if their red and black hooped sweaters clung just that little bit tighter than before. Great garage band tunes, though, glorious repetition and that blistering raw telecaster and phantom bass sound.
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