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Live: The Sadies

Jan 7, 2011
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Posted by Steve Clements

The Sadies live show reviewed for Brighton SOURCE magazine, Brighton's best music,arts and listings magazine.

From the opening Spaghetti-Western-meets-Dick-Dale style instrumentals through to the breakneck 30-second final song, The Sadies proved again why they are regarded as one of the greatest live bands on the planet; and on the last date of their tour no less.

The first new songs from latest album ‘Darker Circles’ were perfectly formed truck-stop classics and ‘Leave Me Alone’ was maximum rhythm and blues à la early Beatles or Stones. Travis Good, sporting a diamante cowboy shirt, played some great surf solos while his brother Dallas looked cool as fuck in a sharp suit as he wailed through each number with a voice that echoed Lee Hazlewood. Many of the songs could be the music from a Tarantino car chase and even the gospel number ‘There’s A Higher Place’ grew into a garage-y maelstrom, followed by a devil-baiting fiddle solo from Travis.

As Dallas said, “We’ve got a long set to play and not a lot of time to play it in”, so they ramped it up in the second half. A cruel curfew meant that a short encore of garage classics including ‘Psychotic Reaction’ and ‘Gloria’ was all we got but they packed more into an hour and a bit than most bands could ever dream of.

The Sadies
Coalition
Thursday 9th December 2010

 

Jan 7, 2011
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Steve Clements
Steve has been a SOURCE contributor since Summer 2010. Favourite quote - "There's no such thing as a sold out gig".
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