Warming up for Marmozets tonight is God Damn, a duo of hair and riffs from Wolverhampton. Playing for 25 minutes they wreck their way through the likes of Maladie Melodie and Vultures with a ferocity that is quite surprising. The two piece hype is still rife and it's obvious why when bands like God Damn exist. They make an incredible amount of noise and have a captivating presence for two guys just rocking out and beering up. I say just, the rocking out bit is quite the spectacle, bone rattling for sure.
But of course, tonight is about the homecoming of Yorkshire's most loved mayhem causers, Marmozets. It's their first UK gig in quite some time and as leading lady Becca Macintyre yells from the stage herself "It's so good to finally be home!" As always, they bring the sweat, the craziness and tonight they're full of surprises. In typical Marmozets fashion, the boys wave their hands at the crowd to rile them up whilst Becca struts around with some of the best mosh-come-dance moves existing in 2015. They storm through he likes of Born Young And Free, Is It Horrible, Weird and Wonderful and Love You Good like it's nothing and the crowd respond with an affectation that you only see at gigs like this one. Half way through the set, Good Days is pulled out the bag, an old one for those 'hardcore fans' and it's a belter. But nothing can prepare the crowd for tonight's real surprises, a guest vocal from Sam Carter of Architects during Vibetech and a Why Do You Hate Me?/Out Of The Black showdown as Royal Blood's Ben Thatcher joins them for an epic finale.
Gigs like this don't come about often, ones where every single person in the room is elated and awe-struck, but that's Marmozets for you, always bringing the most exciting show about.
