Friday, 22 August 2014

Safe Ships - Belfast, Voodoo - 21/08/2014

Safe Ships gig poster
It was William Shakespeare (and how many times would you expect to see The Bard quoted on PlanetMosh?) who penned that immortal line about parting being such sweet sorrow... tonight, marked a parting of the ways for Belfast-based Safe Ships, as half of the band members prepare to return to their native Yorkshire (where theyIt was William Shakespeare (and how many times would you expect to see The Bard quoted on PlanetMosh?) who penned that immortal line about parting being such sweet sorrow… tonight, marked a parting of the ways for Belfast-based Safe Ships, as half of the band members prepare to return to their native Yorkshire (where they will continue to perform under that name…).  But would it be a farewell which was sweeter that it was sorrowful, or vice versa?  There was only really one way to find out, wasn't there? Openers Spittin' Teeth (https://www.facebook.com/spittinteethDIRT) – one of this PM correspondent's favourite young Belfast bands of the moment – are typically tight and suitably aggressive as these rising stars of the local hardcore scene prove that they are one act more than capable of plugging the gap that will imminently be left by Gacys Threads when they knock it on the head later this year… Vocalist Corin Gillespie perhaps tries a touch too hard to get the healthy crowd of early comers into the groove, but above all it is another proficient and highly enjoyable set. Usually when you see a band you've never (perhaps somewhat criminally) never heard of before, you [...]

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