Download 2005: Saturday Napster Stage
United Kingdom | |
11 June 2005
And their
grungy rock'n'roll on the breakfast menu is just what the doc ordered. Pearl Jam-esque vocals served on a bed of roaring guitars
and pounding drums, their sound is as infectious as it is rocking, proving you don't have to play high up the bill to write
yourself into festival folklore.
Eccentric
Swedish surf punks Quit Your Day Job are up next. Who knows what's in the backstage water, but these guys
are sky high on it. A ton of noisy, insane songs about day centres, pissing on pandas, and the love song 'Sperm Are Germs'
impress the slowly waking crowd, especially when stirred with their onstage energy.
Encouraging
the dwindling crowd to simultaneously plead: 'Hey come to the Napster tent' doesn't quite work for New York quartet
Diamond Nights, but for a while it seems their brand of radio friendly rock might. All hair and guitar strings,
the band roll into their set attempting to woo the crowd with melodic indie rock stylings. They've got all the right hooks,
the beats, and the talent to sit pretty in the Americana rock genre, and at another festival they may have been loved - but
at Download they were merely appreciated.
First things first, Crucified Barbara are gorgeous! Four Swedish girls with instruments is enough
to send our male contingent into fantasy land, but as soon as they start it's time to talk riffs and rock.
With a sound heavily influenced by the '90's heavy rock movement these girls raise the level in the Napster tent and
the crowds pile in to get a glimpe of the sultry sirens and a taste of their metalic bite. These queens of noise are
the first to get a proper audience and they fucking rock.
Panic Cell may be on a mission to drill
themselves into the forefront of UK metal, but these guys refuse to give in to modern pretty boy genre trends, instead
taking their cues from the past masters. Old school metal with melody, aggression and noise from the start, it's pure testosterone
power. Signature track 'Save Me' screams likes an ambulance having a heart attack, showing that this band deserve bigger and
if they don't get there it'll be a travesty.
Having supported The Darkness it's no wonder The Answer take their influences from Led Zeppelin
and Thin Lizzy. When not ripping off almost every classic hair metal riff, they offer little in the way of original material.
Makes you wonder how dull the question must have been if this is the answer......
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