Another day of glorious sunshine! Who needs an alarm clock when your first band of the day Bacchus Baracus are doing their sound check at 10.30am? Half asleep I trundled down to the marquee just as they started their set and was knocked back by a wall of feedback drenched stoner/doom metal in the veinAnother day of glorious sunshine! Who needs an alarm clock when your first band of the day Bacchus Baracus are doing their sound check at 10.30am? Half asleep I trundled down to the marquee just as they started their set and was knocked back by a wall of feedback drenched stoner/doom metal in the vein of the sorely missed Acrimony. Vocals were handled by their drummer known as Quzzy who came across as an angry Ricky Warwick. Awesome start to the day! Les-Fest TeePees Edinburgh based Vantage Point were next up and were in complete contrast to Bacchus Baracus. Vocalist/bassist Murray Graham had a voice to shatter all the glasses behind the bar (that is if they had not been plastic) and his range was up there with Rob Halford and Geoff Tate and made it look so easy playing in a boiling hot marquee early afternoon. Their set was over far too quickly, probably seemed more so with the speed they were playing with an electrifying mix of Judas Priest and NWOBHM. A brief Thin Lizzy twin guitar instrumental called The Big Welcome lead into 'Demonic Dinner Dance' with it's Priest dynamics curing any hangovers in the crowd. Highlights [...]
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