Three Blind Wolves @ Captain’s Rest 04/03/2010
Written by admin on March 6th, 2010Tonight’s show is opened by Y’all is Fantasy Island’s mesmerising Adam Stafford, who creates fascinating entire songs through a combination of vocal loops. The result is surprisingly full sounding and the small crowd who turned up early enough are duly impressed.
With the not so enviable task of following up the Y’all is frontman is Billy Vincent who bring their “dirty folk” to Scotland for the first time promoting their new EP, The Morden Shake. The band’s catchy tunes and foot-stomping beats suit the Captain’s Rest’s sociable feel and spark more activity in the crowd acting as a good warm-up for the headliners.
Glasgow locals Three Blind Wolves are well known within the scene and are the draw for most of tonight’s sizeable crowd. The feel in the Captain’s Rest great an atmosphere much like a great band was playing in your living room just for you and your friends (a phenomenon which Three Blind Wolves, formerly Ross Clark & the Scarf Go Missing, are not unfamiliar with). The band’s upbeat, country style fills the room getting the crowd dancing along from the very first song.
Upbeat tracks like ‘Black Bowl Park’, ‘Funky Town’ (which gets the whole room involved in a “bit of a shuffle”, as lead singer Ross Clark puts it) and “Captain of a Ship”, which gets by far the biggest round of applause from the crowd, fill the set. Even slower songs, like ‘Emily Rose’ keep the crowd bouncing and singing along.
Three Blind Wolves think the most important thing about live music is that crowd have fun and they definitely do not disappoint tonight. They finish the set with a brilliant cover of ‘The Weight’, made even better by the joy they get from performing to such a welcoming crowd. For a night of charismatic, honest music and banter there is no better band to see in Glasgow. Three Blind Wolves are touring later this month including dates in Glasgow and Edinburgh with the French Wives.
Katherine Haig
