Traditional
rock bands have always managed to weather the storm of passing
trends.
Mainly
because they don't mess with the template.
You can
turn up at a gig any week in the last forty years in a club and find
a rock band with their heads down ploughing through the same old
riffs.
There's
nothing wrong with that.
There's a
certain admirable bullish attitude being displayed as they give the
punters what they want.
It's not
a turn off for me, but given the choice I usually gravitate to
something that leans towards throwing a spanner into the works, and
that's where The Other Side come in.
With
their latest album they are musically treading the same path as other
bands of their ilk, but the spanner being added to the mix is in the
lyrics.
Forget
your damsels in distress, your fairies with boots and the space
dragon.
That's
not where The Other Side are coming from.
With the
Tolkien fantasies cast to the side they are sharply going for the
jugular and tearing the curtain down that the bankers and successive
governments wish to lurk behind.
Social
ills are dragged out into the light and battered senseless with the
hammer of righteous rock and roll.
Midway
through the album you get a distinct impression that the oft
illustrated rock god that adorns many a record sleeve would perfectly
suit the donning of a V for Vendetta mask.
Not a bad
thing in my opinion.
Come the
revolution I wouldn't mind seeing a berserker riding into battle on
behalf of the people to the accompaniment of The Other Side being
blasted out as the call to arms.
I suppose
what I'm trying to say is that the band are well worth checking out.
Especially if you are sick of the same old same old in the rock world, and equally sick of the world we are living in.
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