You give what you get in this music lark and sometimes no matter how hard you try, it is almost impossible to warm up a crowd, even the best struggle. Now Midlands-area (ish) heavy rockers Fury (8) are usually damn good at winning over a crowd with their anthemic music but it just seems that Swansea on a Thursday night is a little bit too hard of a nut to crack. Still more on that later.
First up was the support who were so artistically different to Fury they may as well have been from another planet. Plymouth purveyors of heaving grooves Six Sins Till Sunday (7) piled on to the stage and brought the thick syrupy riffs of bands such as Rob Zombie, Pantera and dare I say it SOiL, the frontman prowling the stage like Anselmo but looking like Ryan McCombs with a voice to match he took to the crowd more often than not to try and elicit some reaction from the mainly seated audience as the band cranked out songs such as Bring Out Your Dead, that were heavy on the riffs and sprinkled with solos. Something a little different but then variation can always be a good thing, they support King Kraken at their album release show in January where along with playing a lot more venues before so I look forward to more viewings.
Lack of viewings is something I don't have with Fury, having been a 'fanboy' for a while now, this was a line up I'd never seen as long time bassist Becky Baldwin was off playing four strings for Mercyful Fate in the USA, Mr Luke Appleton of Absolva/Blaze Bayley stepped in to her boots (not literally) to bring the bottom end alongside drummer Tom Fenn.
On a high stage like this you can actually see what a great drummer Fenn is especially on his drum solo which gains extra points for having the famous "Do you like jazz?" line from seminal meme movie Bee Movie, preceding it. Back to the main bulk of the show though and with Burnout setting the tone, the setlist reminded pretty much unchanged since the last viewing (and why change a winner) with If You Get To Hell First dropped because of technical issues, still we got Dragons Song, The World Is Mine, anti-sexism anthem Rock Lives In My Soul which showcased the vocals of Nyah Ifill, the nudge nudge wink wink of Embrace The Demons and many more.
The highlights for me as always being Upon A Lonesome Tide, which actually got some of the crowd standing and swaying along, then going nuts for the Motorhead inspired It's Rock N Roll. As Jake Elwell shredded and soloed against Julian Jenkins' riffs, you can see the joy on both men's faces as they cranked out more riffs, despite the challenging crowd, which I will admit got a bit boisterous when a load of students arrived, but we're overall a bit flat. Still can't win em all and as Casino Soleil brought the evening to a close it was yet another solid set of rockers from Fury who always deliver.
With a few more viewing booked in at Merthyr and Bristol you'll be seeing their name a lot more in these pages over the coming months so get ready for that as it's only a good thing.
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