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The Dirty Pretty Things’ gig for THE MAKE ROADS SAFE Campaign is taking place tonight at The Coronet in South London, and the large venue is totally packed.
Thanks to the near unbearable heat everyone’s brows are being wiped on a regular basis and the fact that it’s pouring outside doesn’t help matters much, but we all believe that the forthcoming performance will be more than worth the pain.
And of course it’s all for a good cause...
First up are DPT’s buddies and one of the best live bands around, Metroriots, who once again manage to blow the stage apart.
These guys couldn’t disappoint if their lives depended on it. |
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And then, I guess meant as a surprise and a treat, comedian Russell Brand takes to the stage in order to introduce Dirty Pretty Things and provide some light relief.
Unusually for him he is welcomed by a hissing and booing crowd, he unfortunately doesn’t manage to tame.
An audience who just like me does not understand why he would be on stage tonight apart from the fact that he is one of Carl’s mates.
In the few minutes he is before us he manages to spoil the big surprise of the night by announcing, with no respect for ‘perfect timing’ that DPT have a very special guest to join them for a couple of numbers, Mr Paul Weller!
Russell Brand finally exits the stage when the band get to their instruments and on the way to his bass, Didz decides to rugby tackle him....
Without a second to spare guitarist Anthony, Didz on bass, drummer Gary and guitar wielding frontman Carl, launch into a frenzied ‘You Fucking Love It’ and with it the crowd totally erupts, raising the temperature a few more notches.
The pace is rather frantic and with electrifying energy they travel through , ‘Wondering’, ‘Blood Thirty Bastards’, ‘Gentry Cove’...actually all of first Lp ‘Waterloo To Anywhere’ is on offer with the added bonus of having, about mid-set an appropriately welcomed revered Paul Weller strumming on ‘Gin And Milk’. |
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Luckily for us the 'Modfather' is back on guitar, to more screams of delight, with Jam classic ‘In The City’, letting Carl take over the vocals.
As he exits the stage as modestly as he entered, the four London trend setters love us and leave us with a wink to the past, Libertines’ ‘I Get Along’.
It somehow feels like a moving, sentimental, fitting good bye to a fantastic evening where we are discreetly but poignantly reminded that this is an ‘awareness’ charity gig and that by the end of every song another child had died on a dusty road somewhere far away from the pleasures of Rock’n’Roll.
MAKE ROADS SAFE will present Dirty Pretty Things throughout the Uk in November and December, so check out DPT’s website for dates and if tonight is anything to go by, unmissable evenings.
Words: Florence ACHERYPictures: Roger SARGENT
www.dirtyprettythingsband.com
www.myspace.com/dirtyprettythingsofficial
www.makeroadssafe.org |
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