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Time
Bomb/Awesome Foursome/Beyond Help
Southampton
Brook 29th December 2009
Tonight
Time Bomb
were back at Southampton’s Brook for what
is now their annual Christmas shindig, with them they have brought two
entertaining support acts, the 1st of which is
“Beyond Help”
who take to the stage with a large group of their
own supporters down the front offering lots of encouragement, they kick
off their set with a self penned song called “Breakdown” which was
written after the guitarists car broke down on the way to one of their
rehearsals. Lead singer “ Becca“ is the daughter of Time-Bomb’s drummer
Keith and her band have supported her Father’s band before, at previous
gigs at the Brook. They are still very young band and their performance
is still a little nervous, however it has certainly improved from their
previously outings which is shown with a great cover of Hole’s
“Celebrity Skin”. The band runs through a good mix of covers before
leaving the stage to a decent applause especially from one certain proud
Father.
The
“Awesome
Foursome” is somewhat of
a local super group made up from members of great local bands such as
“Orange Street”, “Loonee Tunes” and “Time Bomb”, with their pedigree
there were high expectations, and they certainly did not disappoint.
They are really tight and all play together well despite the stated lack
of rehearsals, a versatile band who play a great mix of songs from all
genres including a great reggae version of “Dreadlock Holiday”. Lead
Singer “Danny Searle“ formerly of “Loonee Tunes” announces to the
delighted crowd that the band are going to perform the classic “Sally
Brown” and immediately the dance floor fills with eager people ready to
dance to the infectious ska sound, the band perform a brilliant version
coupled together in a medley with Peter Gabriel’s “Beko” and The Beat’s
“Rankin’ Full Stop”. Further songs by The Killers, Madness, Blink 182
delight the Southampton crowd with an excellent vocal/guitar performance
of Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” ending their set. As the band left the
stage “Danny “ stated “you probably won’t see us again because were are
so lazy” this would be a great shame as such a great band, should be
seen by many as they put in such a quality and enjoyable performance.
As
“Time Bomb”
take to the stage the dance floor seems to swell with people eager to
get a better view of the band, kicking off with The Who’s “Can’t
Explain” which certainly gets the party started with Guy delivering the
vocals in the usual excellent way. The band have rehearsed a good deal
of new songs which they put into their set to keep it fresh, songs such
as Madness’s “Bed and Breakfast Man” and Paul Weller’s “Sunflower” are
dispatched giving the audience plenty of opportunity to sing along. As
with previous years “Deano” from the audience joins the band on stage to
deliver the Phil Daniels style vocals on Blur’s “Park Life”. The laser
lighting rigs created great effects; however the promised images
projected on the rear screen as in previous shows failed to materialise
due to a technical fault. Time Bomb’s speciality has always been their
ability to recreate the songs of The Who and despite the mixture of
other covers that they do, their performance of The Who’s back catalogue
is second to none. Ending their set with versions of “5:15”, “Louie
Louie” and “My Generation” from the classic film “Quadrophenia” they
have the delighted crowd begging for more. The band dutifully returns
and play their final song “The Beat’s “Mirror in The Bathroom” which
sees’s lead singer Guy and bass player Simon exhaustingly were jumping
around all over stage ending their set in style. This is yet another
impressive performance by possibly one of the best bands on the local
music circuit today.
Chinners
(29/12/09)... Thanks Chinners
March 2009
E-mail from Dave Moore who played keyboards
for 'From the Jam': “Great to hear from you Steve, loved your show in
Southampton, bloody great, it's tough to do "The Who" well and you guys
really pulled it off.”
27th Dec to 31st Dec 2008
“Quality gig at The Brook as usual, see you the post
office club on the 24th “… Stuart W
“Saw
you at the The Brook on Sat 28 Dec 08 for the first time, great show”
...Andy
“Fantastic night on Dec 27th at The Brook, my first time seeing you guys.
I love all the Jam stuff. Great to hear 'Time For Action' - Could you do
more Secret Affair songs? I also can't stop humming your own stuff
particularly 'English Boy' and 'Time Bomb' Where can I buy a CD?” …. Jim
“The Brook last night....... shit hot!”… Marc
“Good stuff at the brook
again last night. Cheers Time Bomb & happy new year”.. Rich
14th August 2009 Posted on
www.safeconcerts.com
by David
Leighton
Locally around Southampton there has been one or two bands
that whether you like them or hate them you would have known, Loonee Toons
and 2-Tonic spring to mind. On Friday I went to The Brook to see a local
band who had cooked up a special Quadrophenia Show so out of doubting
curiosity I went along.
When we entered the building at a little after 8pm it was already half
full and the atmosphere was heavy with excitement. Local DJ Hammy was
playing some tunes and at a little after quarter past nine Time Bomb came
on the stage to an enormous cheer and display of adoration the likes of
which I have only ever witnessed for professional bands.
There first set was opened by a self penned tune named Time Bomb, I am not
quite sure how to describe it other than its like a collision between
Rock, Punk and Ska. The sound was quite unique but one of the most
together sounds I have heard in a long while. Vocals were loud proud and
very harmonious, the guitaring was excellent, not a metal shredding
merchant but tuneful solos that were reminiscent of Santana these were
delivered with real passion it wasn't the number of notes just how he
played them, just made the hairs on your neck stand up. Keys were like
Dave Greenfield, very busy fingers but what a player someone who would not
be amiss in Oasis, The Stranglers or Squeeze. The first set did comprise
of a bit of a mish mash of tunes from the classic music era. One thing was
for certain the crowd absolutely loved it front man Guy had the crowd
eating out of his hand and singing back at him when ever they had a
chance. Brilliant crowd control.
They went off and in short space of time they crept back on the stage in
the dark, as the projections started and the lights began to strobe into
life I noticed that they were now all immaculately turned out in sharp mod
suits. As the opening track of Helpless Dancer Grew so did the obvious
excitement of the audience. The burst out of Helpless Dancer into The Kids
Are Alright and absolutely nailed it, it was not at all like the classic
who line up these lads had the sounds of the Who as they are now with the
power behind it to match. Track after track they faultlessly banged out
with ever increasing appreciative cheering from the crowd.
Deviating from the Quadrophenia theme they threw in some of the Who big
guns, You Better You Bet, Baba O'Reilly, Wont Get Fooled Again I have not
yet heard a band attempt you better you bet and even the who said in
earlier years that they struggled with it live, but what a rendition with
the crowd reaction and singing in the middle this 5 minute track lasted
nearly double that. Fantastic jaw dropping stuff.
They finished the set and left the stage but the noise cheering whistling
and foot stamping encouraged them back to do two more, again despite the
fact that the band looked shattered they served up another two perfect
replications of the who live. As they finished they all lined up across
the front of the stage and applauded the audience who had been fantastic
and also saluted the Sound Engineer who rumour had it was on loan from The
Jam for such a great job.
All in all for the £8 that it cost me to go it was fantastic probably one
of the best live performances I have seen in the last 5 years bar none.
12th August 2009 Posted on
www.safeconcerts.com
by James
Lawton
A fantastic evening, ok they were a local semi-pro band but
they blew the roof off with energy and power, close your eyes you would
have thought it was The Who, Simply awesome and well worth the £8 entry.
If they do it again on that scale with the lights and projections then I
would recommend you get some tickets you wont be disappointed.
9th August E-mail: From Chinners:
TIME- BOMB- QUADROPHENIA SHOW
-THE BROOK, SOUTHAMPTON 8TH AUGUST 2008
The sounds of DJ Hammy created the
perfect atmosphere for the night ahead, playing tracks from all genre's
Northern Soul, Ska, Punk, 60's, Mod and even a classic from The Alarm
"68 Guns" (One on my favourite band's of all time!!) . Despite being a
small venue the Brook can have a certain atmosphere at gigs and as the
people filed in you could feel the excitement in the air. Tonight was
billed as a special Quadrophenia show, two sets of music with much of it
all being very closely related to the 1977 film starring Sting, Toyah
and Phil Daniels.
The band strolled out on to the Brook
stage and were given a very warm welcome by the 400 strong crowd,
they then kicked of with their self written song "Time bomb". The set
was filled with Ska/Mod classics as well as a few of their own and the
dance floor at the front was soon filled with eager dancers of all ages,
some who had taken the trouble of dressing up in clothing seen in
the Quadrophenia film. Lead vocalist Guy Cowmeadow worked the crowd
really well , with well delivered vocals and some excellent dancing with
some great facial expressions. Stand out tracks "Little Bitch" ,
"Turning Japanese" and "Shut Up' all went down really well, a mad,
spacey version of The Beat's "Mirror in the Bathroom" ended the 1st set
with most of the crowd singing along, enthusiastically encouraged by
Guy.
After more excellent sounds from DJ Hammy,
Time-Bomb returned to the stage to start the Quadrophenia set, above the
stage was a huge screen which throughout the set had stills from the
film projected on to it. The classic cult film telling the story of a
Mod called "Jimmy" growing up in 70's Britain backed by the music of The
Who. Songs such as "5.15", "My Generation" and "The Kids are
Alright" are classics on their own, however played in this atmosphere
with this band they are just amazing. A nice surprise was the addition
of the Blur classic "Parklife" with a special guest vocalist. After
nearly two hours of great music the band came to the front of the stage
and took their bows, Guy, Simon, Keith, Steve Hayes and Steve Green had
given their all sending all of the 400 strong crowd home more than
delighted.
9 Aug 2008
16:44
Well done you lads for last night .Told on the grapevine you lads were
cooking. A great night was had by all Can't wait to get you all down our
club. Have a great weekend fellers.
Jimmy.
A HUGE thanks to you guys for an amazing
gig last night. You're the talk of the town, playing for 2 hours right
through with such energy. Words alone cannot convey our thanks for giving
of your time and talents for such a worthy cause. RESPECT....to you all.
For those reading this comment and wondering if to book TIME-BOMB or
not.....DO SO.....you won't be disappointed!
Keep The Faith! Jenny. RTSC
24.02.08
Hi guys great gig last night we enjoyed
it immensely your 2 hour set was awesome full of energy look forward to
seeing you again soon, are you still doing the gig at the rifle club on
the 12th April hope so
From Patrick and Simon
24.02.08
Thanks for a great 2hr set last night
lads, you did the do proud.
1st time we've seen you play, and we weren't disappointed!!
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Well done :)
24.02.08
Great night at the Brook, good to see you boys back there, liked the line
up.
Dave White 05.01.08
Never seen you before but I had a great time at O'Neills, bought a CD as
well
Tracey Davis 18.11.07
All right mate, just a few lines to say good to see you all again last
night quailty gig as always and good to get time for a chat
Stuart Woolger 18.11.07
'Quality as usual, catch you next time you are in Portsmouth'
Stuart Woolger 27.10.07
'Wow 5:15 by the Who
superb boys, keep it up, see you soon'
Gary Bonner 27.10.07
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