Scream Overplay

had a fantastic saturday afternoon! went to this festival of unsigned bands called scream overplay. it was a small venue so the noise leverl was amazingly loud! although the crowd were dull - the bands were playing rock music and there were people sitting down!

this 1st pic is of the band that kicked off the festival - they are called one man down, and were apparently one man down! as there are normally 4 of them. there were 3 of them (despite the fact there are only 2 of them in the picture - the bassist is to the left somewhere!). they were pretty cool, slight hint of placebo about one of the songs, while another song had a mexi-greek feel to it (mixture of mexican and greek sounds - according to the lead singer anyway!

this was the 2nd band (called resound i think). managed to chop off the guitarist on the left again. d'oh! slightly more likely to be heading for commercial success than the first band - they had an amazing live presence and energy that i feel could be transferred to a bigger stage. in my opinion, the main musical influence here was the strokes. indeed, the lead singer even looked like a member of the strokes!

didnt catch the name of the next band. they were replacing a band called empire. they rocked! they were a bit too hardcore for my mates it seems, but i was lovin it. the bald headed guitarist just played with so much energy - he looked like he wanted to rip that guitar to shreds!

look what i had to put up with to enjoy some music! haha only jokin guys. from left to right: matt, chris, maz and the steve. great time had by all i think!

the final band we saw were called the light. i found them quite dull as all the songs sounded the same! according to the steve, they are very like shed seven....