Live Review
Just Mustard / Talk Show / Careerist
The Prince Albert, Brighton
October 16 2019
Words/Pictures: Steve Willcox
On a wet and windy night the Irish are back in town. Dundalk's Just Mustard, bring along Belfast rockers Careerist to sgare the craic, with London lads Talk Show making up what looks like a triple whammy of a line-up.
With an impressive turn out for first support, Careerist take to the stage. Previously known as Hot Cops, this trio knows the score. Vocalist Carl Eccles launches the night with ‘Doors’, a song that sounds not to dissimilar to Beck with melodic slacker rock guitars driving the tunes along in the background. New single ‘Slasher’ - from their forthcoming album 'Weird Hill' - gets the crowd moving and it’s nice to hear ‘Book II’ get an airing before its release as their next single. An old Hot Cops track ‘Decay’ is brought out to close an engaging set.
With the room filling up with revellers that are looking to party, South East London new wave punks Talk Show get on the stage and launch immediately into ‘Glue’ with Tom Holmes' guitar crunching riffs, inter-spliced with vocalist Harrison Swann’s gritty spoken-word lyrics. ‘Fast and Loud’ brings out the dancing feet of this room with the mad infectious beats of drummer ChloĆ« Stacey Macgregor; this cracker of a debut single - "a bleak commentary about cities" - having caught attention on its release back in March.
‘Fear’, the B-side to the aforementioned, brings the frontman out onto the floor for some alfresco guitar playing amongst the crowd, and later on during ‘Atomica’ he serenades the busy room with his energetic and engaging vocal style. ‘Stress’ has a great melody driving this song along and bassist George Sullivan delicately plucking those chords to a thumping rhythm. Little Indie favourite, the spaghetti western-meets-post-pink styled ‘Ankle Deep (In A Warm Glass Of Water)', proves to be a fitting end to their set with a room getting totally behind the frenetic guitar flailing and Harrison's urgently spat-out delivery. With a headline London Halloween show in Peckham soon, these guys are worth seeing again and I’m seriously thinking of going.
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