Honest indie brilliance from The Crookes
The Crookes, Dead English Poets, The Blues bar, Harrogate.
CLASSIC Harrogate four-piece the Dead English Poets opened a superb Harrogate International Festival Fringe evening at The Blues Bar with their punchy set.
Solid bass playing holds this otherwise frantic band together. If they just relaxed into their self penned music and played with more soul they would be ten times better than they already are.
Maturity and experience will add to the solid bass sound and then we will hear the dead poets come to life.
The Crookes, hotly tipped for a bright future by NME and BBC radios One, Two and Six made their first appearance in Harrogate with an intimate Blues Bar show organised by Matt Stephenson after playing to huge crowds across the country. Packed with a much younger aheadudience than usual, along with a few regulars, including a contingent who had travelled through from Leeds, The Crookes tore straight into their set of vibrant pop music with the energy of youth on their side and the musical competence of a band twice their age.
The sound was perfect and The Crookes filled the bar with their energy and enthusiasm, the applause after each track was clearly heart felt by the Crookes fans. So much so that they demanded an encore which was duly delivered.
The Crookes may have been playing an intimate Harrogate venue but they played it as though it was the most important gig they have ever played.
Truly The Crookes were a highlight of Harrogate’s first fringe festival and certainly a band we will be hearing much more of in the years to come.
Stuart Rhodes
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