That New Band Smell: The Runaway Bears
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Bonjour! Champignons er … et petit pous? Brian Coney at your local-music-delving service. So… with term-time having well and truly kicked into gear, what could possibly be your excuse to venture out into the night to avail of the frankly mind-blowing range of gigs and concerts happening Belfast and further afield? We are literally spoilt for choice: with Culture Night having come and gone, the return of Radar at QUBSU and Belfast Music Week looming on the horizon, here’s my pick of three acts to keep an eye and two ears out for over the coming months. Et voilà ...
Having been busy gigging on the local circuit over the last few months, Maghera-based four-piece The Last Generation are arguably one of the most promising young rock ‘n’ roll acts in the country. With their debut EP, Revelation, released only last month, their ripping brand of high-octane, riff-laden, no frills hard rock is an aural antidote to all that is fiddly and factitious in humble art of music making. ‘Frankly’, the second of three tracks from the aforesaid EP, is my pick of the lot.
Going somewhere further south for our next act, Cork-based indie rock band Terriers have played support to likes of fellow upcoming Irish bands , and over the last year or so. What they share with these bands is a guitar-led, forward-thinking aesthetic, bursting with energy, structural innovation and an innately feel-good sentiment threaded throughout their Sound. The opening track from their debut EP, Girl I'm Gon' Do Right By You, The Good News is a feisty declaration of what they’re all about.
Despite being together for the last couple of years, the riff-fuelled, fuzz-rock of young Lisburn/Belfast three-piece The Runaway Bears has finally come together as a coherent, hugely promising whole. Having released several impressive demos over the last while, their latest track, Almost Useless - with its riff seismic shifts in tempo and ferocious charge - suggests some great things to come over a full-length release. Rawk! Ìý
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