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The Blues Revelator Band - Love Apple, Bradford
Me and a couple of mates turned up nice and early for this gig, knowing from experience that this is the only way to go see The Revelators to ensure you get a good seat. I also seem to have unintentionally avoided paying in using this policy, which obviously I feel terribly guilty about.
Anyway, the Revelators are a local five piece ‘blues’ band with stylish black hats and quite a following. You should try cramming in to The Puzzle in Sowerby Bridge to see them, you need some serious determination and presence of elbow to hold your spot once the band get going in that pub, I can tell you.
The singer, who also plays a mean harmonica, pogos and writhes around his mic stand while growling songs with a rasp and a manic grin, where he gets the time to breathe in amongst the jumping, singing and blowing the harp, I have no idea, but he’s a great front man, both from a performance point of view and the way he entertains the audience in between songs. Apparently you could class the band as “Acid fusion and gothic horror blues�, however, as far as he was concerned, “the blues is the blues� by any name.
He took a grim delight from the death of Richard Whiteley – apparently watching Countdown is also the blues. His right hand man on keyboards also plays bongos in a steel dustbin, and his piano playing is frantic and skilled; he really bangs down on those keys hard and fast in places. The rest of the band are solid performers and the whole lot are very tight. The new bassist seems to be working out for them nicely, and it’s good to hear their sound now they have the full compliment again.
- The Blues Revelator Band
- Love Apple, Bradford (30th June 2005)
- Category: Live
- Reviewed by: The Manager
- Published on: 15 Jul 2005
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesThey treated us to two full sets of songs, including some new ones; such as the ranting “Hull, Hell and Halifaxâ€?. During one of their really energetic numbers – I’m pretty sure it was “Death’s Black Trainâ€? – they even managed to gee up an old fella with a stick enough to get up and start dancing; he was having a right old time in the middle of the dance area – I was just keeping an eye on that stick, I didn’t want to get clattered with it as he swung it round.
The sound was good and loud in The Love Apple – my ears were still ringing as we left the building, which is not something you would ordinarily expect from a ‘blues band’, however The Revelators have a real heavy blues sound. The latest is that they’re recording a new album, although this ‘could take some time’, so although I’m dying to hear it I won’t be holding my breath. You can’t rush these things, can you? In the meantime, I’ll be going to see the band when I get chance, and I’d recommend you do the same. Get there early.
THE BLUES REVELATORS? SEE THEM LIVE.
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