Awesome!
Andy Fawthrop
The Long Street Blues Club season is now in full swing, giving us a second gig within a week, and with several more to come before Crimbo. Last night was a switch of nights to Friday from the usual Saturday, and of venue from the usual Con Club to the more intimate surroundings of downstairs at The Corn Exchange in The Bin.
Our treat for the night was Los Angeles-based all-female tribute band Black Sabbitch. They’re now coming towards the end of their Autumn UK tour, and so they were already at full tilt as they hit D-Town. They served up a stonking two-hour, one set performance that was brim-full of energy, enthusiasm (and volume) as they ploughed through all things Black Sabbath.
There was no support act, nor was any needed. It would have been a thankless task for anyone to do the warm-up for a band like this.
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Right from the outset we had that trademark loud and grinding rhythm section, provided by Angie Scarpa on drums and Melanie Makaiwi on bass. To be honest, you couldn’t so much hear the bass as feel it, with every deep note seeming to seep right out of the floor. Good vibrations – oops, wrong band, but you get the point! Lead guitar featured Emily Burton, and the line-up was completed by Alice Austin on vocals and (occasional) keys. What followed was a master-class in paying homage to a very British band by four very talented and committed musicians. The Sabbath fans were there in numbers, cheering every intro and mouthing the words to every song.
Picking up some of the doom-laden back-catalogue, they managed to lift the old material and make it shine somehow brighter. I wouldn’t necessarily count myself as the country’s greatest Sabbath super-fan, but I couldn’t help but be impressed by how the band managed to nail every number.
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It was a rousing set, capped by two well-deserved encores, finished out by (what else?) “Paranoid”. The only thing wrong with it was that it didn’t last longer!
Another great night – an awesome gig.
Future Long Street Blues Club gigs:
Saturday 5th November 2022 Robbie McIntosh Band
Friday 11th November 2022 Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse (Corn Exchange, Devizes)
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Saturday 19th November 2022 Hardwicke Circus and The Alex Voysey Trio
Friday 23rd December 2022 Gee Baby I Love You
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