Fri June 18th @Stripes: Top Quality evening of Rock

[PJ]

FRI 18 JUNE @STRIPES BAR:
Top class Rock night in Air Conditioned comfort!

BLACK #5 and THE CHAIR REVISTED

Black #5 are already established as one of the most exciting new rock bands in the country despite only forming at the beginning of 2003. Based in North Lincolnshire, the four piece have already played a number of gigs abroad as well as in England, particularly in France where they headlined to more than 1,000 people.

In recent interviews both highly respected music journalist Mark Blake (Q magazine) and Total Rock Radio's Malcolm Dome picked the band as their ‘brightest hope for the future,' while ‘Jason Ritchie of Get Ready To Rock' called them “The best new British band since The Darkness.”

Black #5 - recently signed up by a record label after starring at The Borderline - play an awesome set. Some Bees may remember seeing them at Stripes after a home game last autumn when they wooed the masses with their stunning sounds :sorted:

Check out their website at:
www.blacknumber5.com

Support comes from the up-and-coming rockers from South Ealing: The Chair Revisited. This talented band went down very well in a recent appearance @Stripes.

This is a superb double-bill :)

Doors: 745pm
Music: 830-11pm
Admission: £5
www.beesunited.org.uk/stripes

[Stokie Boy]

Superb band Black #5 - think the classic rock of Thin Lizzy/Led Zep meets Pearl Jam via Jet! Well worth seeing & they came all the way from Hull last year to raise money for Diabetes UK at a Stripes charity gig. Top fellas :) :) :)

[Stokie Boy]

...yet another great night of LIVE music. Come on you Bees fans support this venue as some top bands have been & are coming up in the next few months (Freewheeler, Lionsheart, local jazz/bluesman Tim Staffell, John Otway, Pitch Invasion, Sacred Heart, Cry Wolf, Casual Affair, etc)...

BLACK #5 + THECHAIR REVISITED Stripes Bar, Brentford FC Friday 18th
June 2004
The support band bought along a healthy crowd (100 plus) but sadly
not one over 18, so not much bar business! Very young band (16-17?)
who played typical indie styled rock – lots of distorted guitar and
bass, although a quiet drummer which id fairly unusual. Classy cover
of the Police's `Message In A Bottle' which had the young males in
the audience moshing but is it me or do the youth of today have no
stamina? They all seemed knackered after a song whereas I remember
being caught in a mosh at Megadeth at Nottingham's Rock City back in
1988 & it lasted the whole set! Not a bad band who will only get
better with a few more gigs under their belt.
Sadly many of the youngsters in the audience had left by Black #5
(doubtless after a bar that would serve them beer!), but those that
did stay were mightily impressed and then some. Of the many `next
best thing' bands I've heard in the past two years since GRTR!
Started Black #5 are on the few that have that `it' factor. You can't
describe it but you know the band are a bit special (thought the same
when I saw the Darkness supporting Def Leppard last year and seeing
Power Quest & Intense together last summer). A four piece with the
unfeasibly talented Phil Collingwood on guitar (he noodles Van
Halen's `Eruption' in soundcheck!), Dale Jeffrey on bass, drummer
Dave Roff and vocalist Neil Muralee. Kicking off the set
with `Armies' – a riff heavy number that sets out their stall nicely –
guitar laden rock with a modern edge. Plnty of new numbers aired
tonight from the forthcoming debut album including `Down', a live
favourate of the future methinks. Only one cover, the excellent run
through Neil Young's `Rockin' In The Free World' – better than the
original in my book! `Billy Pilgrim's Progress' is a certified
classic – catchy chorus with a big guitar melody throughout and some
serious drumming by Dave Roff who fairly beats his kit into
submission a la John Bonham. For an encore we get `Armies again! Well
with a tune this good you can't get enough of it!
Another excellent set by the end and they've doubtless won some
more new fans. Black #5 are certainly a band going places and come
alive in the live arena.
Good to meet a `Backstage Hero' from GRTR!, Gerry Kelly, one of
the leading lights behind the Soundhouse Reunions (this was a
legendary club that helped spread the word about the New wave of
British heavy Metal).

Jason Ritchie
www.getreadytorock.com