“Camel toe? I invented the camel toe honey!” grins Deap Vally lead singer Lindsay Troy before taking a hearty gulp of some gruesome looking wine. Indecent questions from frisky Mancunians aside, this is not the typical behaviour you’d expect from two girls who met at crochet class in Los Angeles.
Unleashing a guitar so filthy that it’s likely to leave you sobbing in the shower for a good few days afterwards, over some beautifully off-kilter drums played by the fiery temptress that is Julie Edwards made for some rather enthralling viewing. (And judging by the bewildered faces on the legions of teenage girls waiting for The Vaccines they obviously made quite an impression).
Troy (who’s attire Xenia the Warrior would surely be proud of) is everything you could ever wish for in a front woman and more. She led the assault with some of the most glorious face-melting guitar riffs your ever likely to encounter for a long time to come. The influence of their icon Jimmy Page is clearly evident in their music, but unfortunately there wasn’t to be any thirty-minute impromptu guitar solos midway through their performance though.
Edwards’ drumming style can only really be described as that of a sumptuous swan, her limbs and luscious red locks were flailing in the sexiest of manners. Although there certainly was nothing delicate about the outcome oh no, nonchalantly producing the thunderous beats needed to back up the extremely fearsome guitar noodling. These are definitely the type of girls your parents told you to avoid when you were younger. (This dastardly duo even plays barefoot when onstage, “We were nearly arrested the last time we visited Manchester” Edwards declared with a little giggle. No wonder Ladies!)
“So are you gonna please me, like you swore you would?” snarls Troy in ‘Baby I Call Hell’, this no doubt made many in attendance rather hot under the collar and left many teenage boys not knowing where to look. You could have cut the sexual tension in the room with a knife. The deathly stomp of new single ‘End Of The World’ sounded like a herd of enraged elephants that have somehow been squeezed into a three-minute song. Scary stuff indeed. But luckily Lindsay is at hand to offer some comforting words “Hate is a parasite, hate will eat us alive.” Ah Maybe not then . . .
Deap Vally will be unleashing their debut album early next year, and on the basis of this show alone expect it to be frighteningly brilliant. Joan Jett once said “I think there’s nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock n’ roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs” it seems Deap Vally are certainly on the right tracks then.
Written by - Joe Woods
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Unleashing a guitar so filthy that it’s likely to leave you sobbing in the shower for a good few days afterwards, over some beautifully off-kilter drums played by the fiery temptress that is Julie Edwards made for some rather enthralling viewing. (And judging by the bewildered faces on the legions of teenage girls waiting for The Vaccines they obviously made quite an impression).
Troy (who’s attire Xenia the Warrior would surely be proud of) is everything you could ever wish for in a front woman and more. She led the assault with some of the most glorious face-melting guitar riffs your ever likely to encounter for a long time to come. The influence of their icon Jimmy Page is clearly evident in their music, but unfortunately there wasn’t to be any thirty-minute impromptu guitar solos midway through their performance though.
Edwards’ drumming style can only really be described as that of a sumptuous swan, her limbs and luscious red locks were flailing in the sexiest of manners. Although there certainly was nothing delicate about the outcome oh no, nonchalantly producing the thunderous beats needed to back up the extremely fearsome guitar noodling. These are definitely the type of girls your parents told you to avoid when you were younger. (This dastardly duo even plays barefoot when onstage, “We were nearly arrested the last time we visited Manchester” Edwards declared with a little giggle. No wonder Ladies!)
“So are you gonna please me, like you swore you would?” snarls Troy in ‘Baby I Call Hell’, this no doubt made many in attendance rather hot under the collar and left many teenage boys not knowing where to look. You could have cut the sexual tension in the room with a knife. The deathly stomp of new single ‘End Of The World’ sounded like a herd of enraged elephants that have somehow been squeezed into a three-minute song. Scary stuff indeed. But luckily Lindsay is at hand to offer some comforting words “Hate is a parasite, hate will eat us alive.” Ah Maybe not then . . .
Deap Vally will be unleashing their debut album early next year, and on the basis of this show alone expect it to be frighteningly brilliant. Joan Jett once said “I think there’s nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock n’ roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs” it seems Deap Vally are certainly on the right tracks then.
Written by - Joe Woods
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Other / [SOUNDCLOUD]
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