Terrorvision
Terrorvision brought a bouncy greatest hits set to Grand Central Hall, Getintothis’ Stephen Fallows was jumping up and down for this one.
Bradford quartet Terrorvision first broke onto the UK rock scene over 25 years ago with their classic Formaldehyde debut, in a time when it was commonplace to find British bands doing well commercially.
This led to a run of hit albums and singles, regularly bothering the Top 40 and making regular appearances on prime time TV when the charts and shows like Top Of The Pops were huge parts of mainstream popular culture.
Over recent years the boys have been back with a series of album anniversary tours and greatest hits sets.
With no sign of a new album, the band seem happy just enjoying their part of a great time for British music, and the fans seem happy with that too.
Opening tonight are local act, and (very) recent winners of Planet Rock’s Best New Band category at their awards, Attic Theory.
Formed from the ashes of Matchstickmen and Rain May Fall, the band were playing the first show as a six piece with the recent addition of guitarist Matt Lawler.
A sparse crowd at first, but during their short set, the crowd grew and they got a better reception with every song, even getting the band to singalong to a part of their closing track.
Liverpool has a raft of metal bands that are ready for the big time at the moment but with shows like this, it shows the city has a thriving rock scene as well.
The band have a new single out My Own Design which got an airing, and their self styled “big groovy sexy alternative rock” sounds impressive in this grand venue.
Frontman Lewis Wright has a good way with the crowd and the band are tight as anything live. Could be a big year for them, and well deserved.
By the time the headliners come on, the hall is nicely busy and everyone was ready for a party.
Reports have come back from other shows that the lads have been on top form and they managed to live up to that and more this evening.
A huge twenty five song set list featuring all of their bounciest anthems meant that there was little time for messing around between songs, with singer Tony Wright using the couple of little breaks for a well earned rest from his constant dancing and energetic performance,
We were tired from just watching him. And some trademark light hearted banter with the crowd.
From the opening bars of Alice, What’s The Matter? to the very end of Perserverance, it was classic after classic as everyone put their lives behind them and partied for an hour and a half.
When it was time to bring the energy down a bit for Day After Day, Wright described the song as one for the lighters to go in the air “… Like when poeple used to smoke fags, proper fags, acoustic fags rather than these new electronic ones…” before asking the crowd to get a picture of a lighter on their phone if they didnt have a real one.
A brief encore at the end of the night saw them perform their most recent track Our Christmas Song as” there’s only 300 days to go” followed by Pretend Best Friend and Perseverance replete with audience participation.
All excited for a gig or three with TV.
Tonight we're playing Grand Central Hall in Liverpool. It's gonna be a blast. I also called in at @boldstcoffee on recommendation and I would recommend it to y'all… Well… https://t.co/p5tOGEFfwc— Tony Wright (@LaikaTone) February 27, 2020
It was a cracking show, loved the venue 🤩 took my terrorvision virgin friend and she loved it 😁
— Rachel Jones (@Raquelqueso69) February 29, 2020
A quality night, what more could you ask for as a music fan from a show?
Decent new band to check out and follow, and then 90 minutes of music that takes you out of your current situation and back to the good old days of your youth. Brilliant!
Images by Getintothis’ Stephen Fallows
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