A new dawn - with Warpaint

 So a new dawn beckons as I begin a journey with a new partner. A lady much more into the good music, art and creative lifestyle that had been so suppressed by my last partner.

So after some lame attempts to reinstall the enthusiasm for this blog, I feel now is the time to take it forward. 

So without further prattling I present my review of the Warpaint gig at Liverpool O2 Academy Feb 20/14. 

It's fitting and quite spooky that the Warpaint lady's would be our first gig as they are the first band either of us introduced to one another. I'd booked my ticket many months ago as soon as the tour was announced but Michele's late decision to come along meant buying a ticket online the morning of the gig, luckily there were still tix available.

We had a nice afternoon in Liverpool, bit of shopping bit of coffee and a bit of beer. Got to the O2 about 6.30 pm where there was already a queue. We devised the strategy of me getting to the front to secure a good vantage point and Michelle doing the important job of going to the bar. 

       

We secured a good spot stage right. Secured some necessary wine and a nice photo of our first gig.

The support were a band called 'All we are' (yep a crap name that one) a three piece. A stand up drummer a guitarist and a female bassist. My first thought was tat they were a Scandinavian band but turned out to be Irish, ah well close. They were pretty good, they cut a good groove so certainly a band to check out.    

I was telling Michelle the last couple of times I'd seen them they always cut a good groove and did extended jams in their songs.

The ladies came on and took positions as previous times I'd seen them. They cut straight into the opening two tracks from the new album. They were on very good form with Jenny on bass realy grooving and dancing to every beat, and every non beat come to that. One strange thing when they introduced "undertow" the lead song from the first album the introduced it as a cover. I've double checked this and it is definately credited to Warpaint themselves, strange! 

The main set ended with an extended jam version of Disco//very, from the new record. After the enthusiastic crowed brought them back out they encored with Drive and another song from their first outing Elephants. 

This will be the third time I've seen the ladies and yeah they are getting better and more proficient, I dare say they will move up the order to bigger venues next time around.