Spitfire Bullets @ THINK TANK
Newcastle 28th march 2015
Supporting Dead By Dawn and The Ramonas
Before i start to review this gig.
none of this would have happened with out the help of Luke
who took up the offer of playing the drums with only two practice sessions of 7 hours in total
managed to help us blast through the set that night.
with a cloudy day over the North east and the little Spitfire Bullet
mobile all loaded up with the gear we headed off to Newcastle to support one of
the most amazing all girl Ramones Tribute
band The Ramonas.
finding the venue was easy just working out how to get in was tricky
after working out which secret back door to open by pressing a call button and
accidentally locking connor and sophie outside not knowing how to open
the door again we managed to get into THINK TANK. with the stage already
christened with the Ramonas back
drop and back line, there was a feeling that we had gone back to 1975 to
standing in CBGB'S where the 4
guys from forest hills began to make a mark in history.
after sound checking tuning up and double checking everything our time
on stage was 7:15pm
I had a feeling we were all nervous for myself it wasn't the first time
i supported a tribute band going back to 2012 the early line up of Spitfire
Bullets supported the well known Sex Pistols Experience. But with only a short
few hours of rehearsals with a temporary drummer i worked twice as hard playing
to a small crowd while attempting to cue the drum changes, we kicked off with
stepping stone with screeching feedback and grovelling vocals we tore into the
next track of battle cries of the song SPITFIRE!!
With no thought i dedicated the next track Psycho Girl to all the crazy
one direction fans slitting their wrists over some karaoke singer leaving the
group, i mean come on all one Direction fans are pretty psycho. Then crashing
through with a cover of pretty vacant and our newest song New York City a short
and fast tribute song to the city, CBGB'S and
the Ramones.
With the band going at 100mph of snarling vocals over driven amps and
crashing and pounding for cymbols and
snare we ended our 30min set with a old classic house of the rising sun, with a
slow and chilled out intro from the original animals version into a sonic
blasting cranked up snarling punk crazy version (it really gets you hammering
the guitar like mad)
next up was Dead by Dawn a crazy psycho-billy rock"a"billy
horror band with a huge double bass a green sparkaly gretch and female fronted ghoulish vocals
they kicked off with a full set of horror ghoulish original songs including a
one called "Psycho Girl" (different to ours of course) while adding
in a misfits cover of London Dungeon.
And finally The Ramonas took
to the stage using the sound track from the good the bad and the ugly (clint eastwood film)
they walked on stage with silence ready to unleash a lighting war. with the
chant heard around the world BLTIZKREIG BOP!
playing through two classic albums in track and album order Ramones and Leave home within 30 min's they blast through both albums just
like the Ramones did in CBGB'S with a crowd of encores they went
through classics such as kkk took
my baby away, cretin hop, i wanna be sedated.
in the end of the night when everyone left, we got a few good pics and had some good conversations
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| Johnny Ramone and Rohnny Ramona |
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| Spitfire Bullets |
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| Ramonas and Spitfire Bullets |
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| The Ramonas |
