There was a good crowd for the opener on this Easter Sunday evening as Jay Aston of Gene Loves Jezebel fame started the show off with his melancholic songs. Though he lightened the mood between songs with little bits of humour including stating that even he did not know why all his songs were sad as he is such a happy person. I guess it's just something that comes out when you have one person on stage with a guitar. Though the nice gentle paced songs were the perfect warm-up for a crowd that looked like they were recovering from Bank Holiday excess. He even, though reluctantly, threw in a Gene Loves Jezebel song upon request.

Next up were Fragile Creatures, who admitted they were a tad more fragile than usual and admitted they too were suffering from a bit of Bank Holiday excess. Though you would hardly tell as they launched straight into a few of their rockier numbers. Announcing that even though their début album had just come out they already had a second albums worth of songs ready to go, so they treated us to a few. Kicking off with 'Monster' which is a great Californian sounding power pop tune and 'The Meaning Of Life' which still sounds a bit raw but has huge potential. Rounding the evening off with the best of their current stuff like 'Stowaways', 'Chemicals' and rather aptly 'Mess We're in'. They certainly raised the energy level in the venue and nicely warmed up the crowd for The Priscillas.

The singer, Jenny Drag, of this all female band has a hint of Siouxsie Sioux about her look. In fact The Priscillas fit somewhere between The Creatures and The Ramones with their pop punk sound. It seems they had managed to get even more drunk than the crowd before coming on stage and guitarist Valkyrie showed it the most. So obviously she decided to introduce the songs… till she nicely introduced the song 'All The Way To Holloway' instead of 'Gonna Rip Up Your Photograph'.

Then she seemed to settle down and get wrapped up in the beautiful sounds her guitar made. Everyone pitches in on backing vocals, even the drummer to good effect and they soon had the packed Albert bopping along to every song. They did throw in a David Bowie cover, though the less obvious 'When You're A Boy'. The pace picks up as we approach the end of the set and at the end we had what's probably the world's shortest interlude before the encore; they had barely put down their instruments before agreeing to do one more. A thoroughly enjoyable band with some great tunes and well worth checking out next time they are in town.
Jonski Mason

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