The Arteries take to the stage looking like Arsenal circa 1990.\u00a0 If they wore black.\u00a0 All in a line and ready to appeal for offside at any given moment.\u00a0 The drummer\/keeper was in white incidentally.\u00a0 They start the evening accordingly, playing ace melodic punk rock.<\/p>\n
When I was in university we used to call this Emo, bands like Texas Is The Reason wearing their hearts on their sleeves and playing loud.\u00a0 My Chemical Romance fucked all this up of course, call something Emo now and images of miserable kids in make up, drinking cider outside the town hall spring to mind.\u00a0 Shame.<\/p>\n
Anyway, calling it emotional hardcore or just plain punk rock makes no difference to the bands involved, the Swansea boys blasting through a set that contains a speeded up version of the Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right.\u00a0 I wasn’t previously aware that the song needed speeding up.\u00a0 Clearly I wasn’t paying attention.\u00a0 Catch these boys again when they play the Diverse Music night at Meze Festival with The Shitty Limits and others.<\/p>\n
Save Your Breath come next, following on where The Arteries left off.\u00a0 These guys have played with Broadway Calls before and it paid off handsomely.\u00a0 The band took a CD back to America and handed it to a certain Billie Joe Armstrong who signed them to his label.\u00a0 Good work!\u00a0 The bassist is wearing a Hot Water Music t-shirt and they sound a bit like early Get Up Kids.<\/p>\n
Broadway Calls have probably listened to their fair share of mid-nineties bands hailing from the midwest too.\u00a0 Despite the singer looking like Mark Watkins, a kid I went to school with and having a mouth that was slightly too small for his face, they too clattered through a set of impressive post hardcore tuneage.\u00a0 Sounded a bit like Blink 182 if they’d stopped the fart gags and concentrated on the songs.\u00a0 They seemed genuinely grateful to the people of Newport for turning out to see them on a typically shit weathered summer Thursday evening.\u00a0 Those that were there will be glad they made the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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