September 13th 2024 – The Joiners, Southampton
Supported by: Shed
I’ve said it before and no doubt will again, but with the days of online tickets ahead of us, it’s sad really. I loved a good old fashioned paper ticket to get into a gig. Ok some over exuberant bouncers would rip it in half, but it was your souvenir ‘I was here’ memorabilia.
Anyway, enough griping. Fresh off the back of a fantastic performance at Beautiful Days festival, I was excited to see Pet Needs were visiting Southampton on a small tour, so I’m here with excitement to see them in a proper small venue. It should suit their style very well.
Shed
Both these bands are from the thriving music scene in Colchester, Essex. First up, Shed. Got a nice feel to this 4 piece band, a bit of a “Frank Turner” sound. Shed sang loud and proud with intelligent emotional lyrics. They delivered a great show and expect to hear more from them as they develop.
Pet Needs
So let’s see how the boys do tonight. They were so friendly at Beautiful Days, posed for pictures and chatted away about music. Tonight wasn’t a big chilled out field, it was a small, dark, atmospheric pub venue in Southampton. And a great venue it is, with superb sound quality, so bands love to play here.
These guys have already supported Frank Turner, The Lottery Winners and The Hives, so there’s already the potential to grow. “The band unleashed a frenetic firestorm of raw, relentless, and electrified tunes. The pulse-pounding rhythms and vocals hit like a lightning strike.
As usual, I’m late to the (fractured) party. This lot are 3 albums in, but they blast into tracks from the newest album, Intermittent Fast Living. Johnny has an immense amount of stage present and unrelenting energy. And the others aren’t sleepy either!
The crowd was loving it and dancing away to all the tunes. Their high energy punk inspired rock with stories was fantastic. I imagine I’ll be looking out for more gigs by these boys.
They plough through greats like Scratch Card, The Age That You Were, Tracey Emin’s bed and after hiding in the corner of the stage to provoke cheers for an encore…an encore of classics Lamp Post and
Overcompensating.
I love watching young bands growing up and making music work. Pet Needs fully involve their audience in everything they do (check out their socials too). It is indeed true…
Punk isn’t Dead; It’s just up sale – go out and buy some now!
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