Review by Jason Ritchie of GRTR!
A decent turn out with some coming from as far afield as Stroud and Cambridge,
just showing how the band's profile is building steadily and likely to grow more after next month's Z Rock festival
appearance. Two support bands, although sadly I missed the first one but Escape played a solid set of hard rock tunes. Not
bad but nothing to really set them apart from other bands in the genre.
Sacred Heart are getting better each time I see them live and tonight saw the debut of
new bassist Nathan Lark, who was resplendent in a Metallica t-shirt seemed to fit seamlessly in with the band's overall
sound. A set dominated by tunes of their great new album 'Shake', including the title track, my personal fave Sacred
Heart song 'Lost' and 'Perfect' - a real riff laden rocker made for radio airplay. Two airings of 'Lay
It On The Line' - one of the band's older songs but now given a new lease of life and fast becoming a live favourite.
Tonight we also got a stunning guitar solo by Mark Stephenson - lots of widdly bits!
Sacred Heart are one of the better live hard rock bands out there
and well worth seeing live believe you me. They deserve a break, for instance if they supported a 'name' hard rock/melodic
rock band on tour they would go down a storm I am sure. Get the album and get down to one of their gigs.
set:
"Lost", "Shake", "Perfect", "Afraid", "Lift You Up", "1000 Tears",
"Maybe", "Lay It On The Line", Guitar solo/"Darkness Falling", "Paradise", "Rock
'n' Roll Away" encores: "Promise", "Lay It On The Line"
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