You know your getting
old when you are dropping your youngest daughter and her friends off to see Marina & and the Diamonds at Leeds University. On the plus side though being in Leeds city centre gave me the perfect excuse to go and see
Tracer who were on at the Cockpit on the same evening.
The show as opened up by the excellent Virgil and the Accelerators
who put together a blistering 30 minute set, defiantly a band to look out for
in the future.
Tracer hit the stage at
full throttle opening up with The Bitch before the popular Devil Ride. The sound
was great and the band was on fire. This tour was the first chance
UK crowds have had to see new bassist Pat Saracino and he
seemed to be received very well, as he and the other band members pounded the
set along with songs like Forget My Name, End of the Samurai, Spaces in Between
and Son of a Gun. All too soon we reached the closing song of the main set
where the band cleverly interweaves their own song Walk Alone with Black Sabbath’s
War Pigs. At this stage Michael Brown was literally giving blood for the cause as
he sliced his finger and even a quick patch up job could not prevent his fret board
being covered in blood during the encores of Won’t Let it Die and Too Much. A great
show by two great bands.
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| Michael Brown Give blood for the cause. |
PS. My daughter said Marina and the Diamonds was awesome. I’ll have to
take her word for that.
NH
