The tea break. Ah, that most venerable of traditions, when one seeks refuge from the travails of the working day by relaxing with a nice cup of Darjeeling or Earl Grey and a chocolate biscuit (or, maybe, if you're lucky a bacon butty) before launching back into the fray once more... In the case of yourThe tea break. Ah, that most venerable of traditions, when one seeks refuge from the travails of the working day by relaxing with a nice cup of Darjeeling or Earl Grey and a chocolate biscuit (or, maybe, if you're lucky a bacon butty) before launching back into the fray once more… In the case of your battered and beleaguered reviewer, this particular tea break took the form of escaping from two days of driving forward the democratic process for a much needed, and enervating, dose of heavy fucking metal: feck yer tea, Mrs Doyle, get the pints in! Right from the opening chord, Dubliners AeSect – making their Belfast debut – rip through the crowd's craniums with the subtlety of a 40-tonne bulldozer with a foot-high pile of breeze blocks on its accelerator. With each song underpinned by thunderous drumming, the performance is technical, progressive and intense in equal measures: vocalist Shane Kiernan is focussed and affable, while lead guitarist David Kennedy sometimes seems to be on a totally different planet as he wrenches his riffs and weaves his melodies to deliver a sound which lies somewhere between Gothenburg and the Carolinas, but has enough of its own venom and [...]
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