This was a good Damaged Goods Records garage rock double header at the M.O.T.H. Club at the General Browning deep in the heart of Hackney.
We arrived just after The Shadracks had gone on and spent a song getting in, I'm on solid guess work for song titles here, but most of the set was made up of songs from the band's recent album From Human Like Forms. Once we were in a busy M.O.T.H. club we could see that Huddy Shadrack was playing a very cool looking vintage Vox Guitar and the band had a great vintage garage rock sound.
They did a very cool instrumental rave up that allowed Rhys Webb to pull all sorts of moves while thundering along on bass. No Time was good and fuzzy with the wry lyrics coming across well.
Pray was a solid stand out with some great drum bits from Elisa Abednego and that chorus that gets me every time I hear the song.
The song I have down as What Can I Say was bitter and twisted enough and the guitar just fizzed and nailed the lyrics down.
If I hearing right, I think the next song was called Visitors and had a bit of a goth garage rumble to it before they closed with a very Link Wray style instrumental.
With Simon Breed whipping the packed house up into a frenzy it was time for The Fabulous Courettes to bring there own special brand of Danish/Brazilian Juju to the stage and they opened with Hoodoo Hop and were soon making sure we all knew all about their Juju.
Both Flavia and Martin never stop moving the whole set and the dancing Flavia was doing while singing and playing guitar was damn cool as they sang about what she wanted to Tell You and the rumbling drums pierced through a song I put down as Drop me, how dare anyone even think of it.
Time is Ticking felt like they'd let the time bomb off and the place was getting well into this stripped back garage rock. Flavia made sure we knew the next song was about the second best drummer in the world, well maybe in her world R.I.N.G.O. is that highly rated, but either way the song went down well and it's better than hearing The Beatles for me anyway.
They got a bit girl group sappy on Until Your Mine but kicked things up a bit more for Daydream that they made sure we knew was off of the latest 10" single Back In Mono. The introduction to Trashcan Honey almost sounded like they were dedicating it to Mike Spenser and his radio show, not sure if they were, either way it would fit perfectly on that show.
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Want You! Like A Cigarette was played smokin' hot and good and frantic as Flavia left us in no doubt as to what she wanted, as she shimmied and shook across the stage. She stayed in seductive mode for Night Time (The Boy Of Mine) as they both got the audience cheering louder and louder.
Martin took the beat to the most basic level for the song I have as Caveman with a good primitive stomp going on. Lots more shout outs for the new back In Mono single, before they played Tough Like That that kept nicely to the band's formula, that of course meant by this point in the set some of the songs felt like they were blending into each other.
They then got to the explosive part of the set with We Are Gonna Die that had some good gritty guitar before Boom! Dynamite! Exploded all over the place at a frantic pace.
T-C-H-A-U really ought to be the last song of the set as a perfect kiss-off song. Still, they had to keep plugging the new Back In Mono 10" with Killer Eyes as both Martin and Flavia seemed to look around to find someone with real Killer Eyes.
They closed the show with All About You that was more than enough to leave everyone hot sweaty and cheering for some more and after we had cheered enough, they came back and encored with the bands very own Dance craze single Hop The Twig that gave us one last chance to hop around and for them to thank us all for showing up on a Wednesday night for some rock and roll action.
Both The Shadracks and The Courettes are well worth seeing live if they tour near you any time soon.
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