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You can’t help but use the term ‘rock survivors’ when you talk about Velvet Revolver. Their battles with drink, drugs and the law could fill a whole edition of The List. But this appears to be the greatest rehab programme any of them could have found. Together they are finding an outlet for all that aggression and a reason for keeping each other clean. Its an iconic line-up Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum joined by ex- Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland and new lad Dave Kushner (ex- Danzig and Wasted Youth).
Their debut Contraband was shot through with old school rock and punk attitudes. As anyone who caught their Carling Academy show last year will attest, it’s live where they really come into their own. Just seeing Slash peeling off killer riffs is a total thrill, especially when sparing with bassist McKagan. Weiland is mesmerising, a rock'n’roll viper of coiled energy, beyond his vocals he‘s the centrepiece of the band, their secret weapon, a hypnotic presence as he writhes across the stage rippling with barely contained sexuality.
Many people will attend simply because of their past glories, but tracks like ‘Slither’ and ‘Do it for the Kids’ already sound like old classics in their hands. And when they do lay down a couple of old GN'R and STP tracks they sound as raw and powerful as ever, reinvigorated with a new sense of purpose. The best old new live act out there. (Henry Northmore)
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lhe guitar. otten suggestive r )l the early Work of lll M"; l’eter Huck, it; hoth chord driven and strait ll‘,_ riot (iiiite rhythm or lead, yet T;t)lll(,‘llll\.‘«' lilling the auditorium With its Wad ol the sound. l'he gig starts poNeilullv: the opener "Vagrant Song' l‘, pat-an to the kind machismo rnelanrjhr )ll.l that makes grown men kick autumn leaves wrth old World War lli‘l )()l'), The middle section wanes, hut stirs itself again With the raw and rousing ’Nakedo'. which sorrieliow meanders into a cover of ‘Why Wor‘r'y' the most MornsseyfSrriiths' tinged version ol a Dire Straits; record you're ever likely to hear. Something happens in the final song_ ‘Nev Year's Day'. Its as though the three points finally torn up and run away With themselves ~ over the ltlll‘; and tar away. let's hope the next gig begins in that place. (Claire Belli
Two ex-members of Texlahoma plus one ex-member of Sputniks Down plus one club-running drummer equals . . . one clanging band of synth- rocking futurists. We spoke to drummer James Hamilton, who, with David Roy (guitar), Stuart Brown (bass) and Graeme Ronald (synths), adds up to
Multiplies. How did you get together?
I used to put on gigs at the 113th Note. and l cocked David and Bear“, pand i’lexiahornai a lew times. (Sraerrie put them on as well .vruen he was lli .‘jriitiiilr', Down, so we all got along and knew we had similar tastes, lrien Nl‘tfl‘ iexlahorraa split. David and Stuart decided to form a new band and asked us to griir‘
So what did you hope to sound like when you started?
We didn't know what tO do at first? We had a whore lead of influences r postpunk, metal, techno. post-rock -- but no preset ide' s of what we had to sound law; We rust threw even/thing together and it came out the wa/ it did. We're as surprised as
anyone that people like it.
What does the future hold for Multiplies?
Wetl. we were flirting th the idea of rust recording an album ourselves, but we're lOO lazy to get Olt Willi ll. V'JE‘".‘.: hao ’JLJIlF; a Bit Of ldDQl interest. but a? flit“; (Of/tire“? we're Just trying to get cursel known outsme oi the Glasgow scene. Althea/gr: that's a dirty pair of .vorris' We're not part of a scene: were iuet frierir 2 Hill: gory;
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