Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Scaremongers
Posted by Olthwaite on 17 March 2010 - 2:43pm.
When:
12/03/10
Where:
Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
Comments:
Simon Armitage is a reluctant frontman. He's either shoe-gazing, looking weary or singing side-on to his wife and co-singer 'Speedy Sue'. Lugubrious? He makes Jonathan Meades look like Graham Norton.
But he has reason to look po-faced. The sound for The Scaremongers' first hometown gig is a bit ropey - one guitarist in the eight-piece battles against feedback, the other fights to be heard, while Armitage's vocals - soft, undeniably Yorkshire and distinctive as his lyrics - drift in and out.
The Audience:
The band don't appear until 10.45pm by which time half the audience, who nearly drowned out the support act with their gabbing, have left - leaving less than 100 people.
Food & Drink:
Regulation black-walled gig bar with a pillar in the middle. Decent selection of booze for these sorts of places, with a real ale on.
It Made Me Think...:
When it all comes together The Scaremongers are wonderful, honorary members of the class of C86, plus June Brides and Brilliant Corners. Derailleur sounds like James's Sit Down, You Can Do Nothing has a sing-a-long chorus about Yorkshire boundaries.
