4 LETTER HOLIDAY are a no-nonsense three piece from Leeds. This short, forceful demo makes their intentions pretty clear from the off; ‘Carefree’ is a rocking, Whole Lotta Love of a song that introduces Christian Temperley as both a powerful singer and accomplished bass player. Drummer Dean Driver and guitar player Jonny Speight are also suitably adept at thrashing out a racket and in terms of raw power, Carefree is a pretty impressive debut, perhaps just let down slightly by a bridge between chorus and verse that loses some of the song’s momentum.
‘She Always Notices Me’ is a dancier number and arguably the most affecting of the three on display as 4 Letter Holiday produce a memorable groove. There’s a bit of cheek to it to; ‘We sometimes meet in the park on Sunday, when she’s out walking the dog; she always has a fire ready, I always throw in a log’ sings Temperley with a straight face before Speight embarks on a wah-wah mission, supported by Driver’s pounding beat.
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The first few seconds of ‘Skyscraper’ have you expecting Appetite For Destruction; but a few seconds later it veers away into a full-on head-bang. It’s a proper set closer of a song that puts you right in the midst of an exploding mosh pit, feet off the ground with an air-guitaring mad man sailing over your head on his back.
With that in mind, 4 Letter Holiday are probably a good bet for seeing live; it’s hard to tell much more from this demo, but the four letters in question are almost certainly r, o, c and k.
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