The Wildhearts, The Von Hertzen Brothers
and Hey! Hello!
The Academy Manchester
April 10th, 2014
Tonight took us back to Manchester for the
second half of my birthday present.
Tonight's show was another band that we have been following for years,
The Wildhearts.
The night started with Hey! Hello! which is
a side project for Ginger Wildheart.
Fronted by Victoria Liedtke and Ginger, they have a good old fashioned
rock vibe to them. Victoria is
reminiscent of Debbie Harry in both her style and sound.
Hey! Hello! have a real energy which gets
the crowd going and even with the questionable dancing throughout the instrumental
parts they were a brilliant start to the night.
Next up were the Von Hertzen Brothers from
Helsinki who, on their Facebook page, describe themselves as three brothers and
two others.
The Von Hertzen brothers delivered a hard
rock set with some fantastic songs, including 'flowers and rust' and 'Coming
Home'.
These guys are perfect for people who love
great melodies with a good kick of guitar.
Before headliners The Wildhearts could even
take to the stage the crowd was already singing their songs in anticipation so
you can imagine the reaction when they did appear on stage.
The first half of the set included all the
old crowd pleasing favourites such as 'Caffeine Bomb', 'TV Tan' and 'I Wanna Go
Where The People Go', which whipped the crowd into a frenzy of singing and bouncing.
The second half of the show took a slightly
different turn as Ginger asked if it was ok with the audience if they played
some of the songs that they enjoyed rather than more crowd pleasers, which it
turned out were just as pleasing to the crowd, and included 'Geordie In
Wonderland', 'Junkenstein', 'Nita Nitro', '29 X The Pain' and 'My Baby Is A
Headfuck'.
Just like Therapy? last week it is easy to
see from tonight's performance how The Wildhearts are still loved and going
strong after so many years in the business.
It was a brilliant birthday present and a good time was had by all.
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