The Glitterati, Therapy? And The Wildhearts - Liverpool Carling Academy, April 28th – Gig review by Kos

Unfortunately I missed the first couple of songs from The Glitterati due to much indecision on the part of the people in front of me in the merchandise queue, I never knew it was THAT difficult to buy a Wildhearts t-shirt.

Never having heard anything by The Glitterati the songs didn't really make much impact, they were alright nothing groundbreaking but then the same can be said of The Darkness and The Glitterati don't have a singer who's vocal chords should be ripped out by rabid EMO kids so they're one step ahead of the game already.

Although the venue started to fill up some more it was still quite a sparse crowd, it's a shame that bands like these can't fill a venue of this size anymore but at least they're still in a position to tour and put out albums.

Next up were Therapy?, to be honest they're my favourite band and I was only really bothered about seeing them, the other bands were a bonus, due to the lack of a huge crowd I was able to get to the front really easily for their cut down set.

With most of the set taken from the ‘Troublegum’ and ‘High Anxiety’ albums they were definitely playing to their strengths of twisted, loud tunes with lots of hooks, would've been nice if they'd have played some songs from the overlooked ‘Infernal Love’.

It's a real shame that a band as good as this don't have the huge following they deserve but they seem happy enough to just to be able to play the music they want. Finishing off their 40 minutes with a cover of ‘Isolation’ that included a snatch of ‘Control’ the now three piece made way for The Wildhearts.

You can always tell the headliners now as they always get the good light show although in this case it meant that The Wildhearts had 2 lasery kind of lights as well as the bog standard ones, U2 would've been jealous...

Wildhearts are one of those bands that I've never got into, good tunes and all but didn't buy the albums so I'd recognise every other song, they're a good tight band but if it hadn't of been for them touring a lot with The Darkness I can't see how else they'd have got the recent push in America they're enjoying.

One event of note was when the new bass player was introduced he got booed by a small section of the crowd, very classy... Fair enough you might of liked Danny McCormack but he was a smack head, you can't expect a band to stand still while he sorts himself out.

Anyway after this a couple of "hilarious" jokes about the tyres being robbed from the coach came from Ginger, those Geordies, true comic gold everytime they open their mouths, obviously bitter at finishing behind us again (a football reference there boys and girls, Liverpool are on course to finish higher in the Premiership than Newcastle United again this season – Ed)...

All in all a good gig although it seems a long time ago when these bands were high up on the bill at your Monsters of Rock and Ozzfest... Great days, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.