The NME recently cited Glasgow as the place to get your Rock’n’Roll fix. Alongside Dogs Die in Hot Cars and Franz Ferdinand, The Needles have begun to get a little of the drip down publicity they deserve, and they’ve worked for it. This is a band that throw themselves into every chord, every note. They sound fat and feisty but amazingly tonight they’re a man down. An educated guess says their keyboardist (or keyboarder, in this band you suspect playing an instrument might be a form of extreme sport) may well have been hospitalised live on-stage. Considering the low ceiling at Junktion 7 and the way their 6ft+ bass-man is throwing himself around it could well be on the cards tonight.
All the same, without keys they still sound great, which is a tribute to the tight efficiency of their diamond hard 3 minute pop songs. The Needles deal in high octane old school Rock’n’Roll, fused with a large frenetic dose of New Wave and washed down with a chaser of Power Pop. The material aired from their forthcoming EP Under The City (dangerous records) is typical of their push-it –up-another-notch attitude. Which only poses the question:– Do you have the stamina for this band?
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But then, they do things a little differently in Scotland don’t they? It’s colder up there, they have to rock a little harder.
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