Just had to go and check out the latest gig but up and coming Essex Boy band Noises from the Cow Shed. There may be something nasty in the woodshed but there's only pure rock and roll coming out of the Cow Shed. Or in this case the Mill Beach pub!
Wish I had taken a bit more time to read the Facebook invite. Thought the gig was at MILF beach. Had visions of bronzed cougars in skimpy gold bikinis pacing the floor, throwing underwear at the band. Sadly this was not the case.
The audience were a very discerning crowd. One half off them were dressed as nuns and the other half were blind. Never in the history of rock gigs can a crowd so diverse have clashed on the dance floor with guide dogs and rosary beads getting tangled in the procession to and from the bar.
Neil Stewart and three other blokes tore in to some rock classics and added a few new pieces to their set. Personnally my set 1 favourite was Dakota as originally done by the stereophonics.
Neal Stewart is a very serious lead guitarist.....so much so that the lad does need to remember to smile when he's putting on a show for the brides of Christ and the RNIB.
Did love the look that the band were going for even though there were a few fashion contradictions. The base guitarist was exposing more than a shapely leg in those mean heavy metal shorts but the fully pulled up sports socks told a different story Neal going for the tried and tested "anything as long as it's black" look that has been so popular with rock gods for the last 5 decades.
Was disappointed that the bands number one groupie could not make the gig but apparently someone had thrown up on her lucky gig T-shirt and it just couldn't be washed in time.
At the end of the first set the ovaltine crowd got a bit ugly. Neal's own parents walked out at the bands refusal to play their wedding song but sadly Copacabana by Barry Manilow did not get an airing. Crowds from the back shouted that they only came to hear Sweet Home Alabama....but that it wasn't due to appear until the barnstorming closing of the second set.
Apparently at the end of the concert, police in full riot gear had to be called in to stop a fight that began when a guide dog downed a nuns pint of Stella and the mother superior used insults that have been banned from use by the Catholic church since 1665. Punches were thrown and several tables were over turned in the ensuing riot.
Local police chief, Edward O'Brian said that this kind of thing always happened when the Cow Shed boys were in town. "It's their anti authoritarian message combined with a devil may care attitude to safety and the sanctity of human life which means their concerts always end in a riot.
At least arrests were down compared to previous concerts. Unfortunately a novice and a golden retriever will be spending the night in the cells, one for having bit a police office, the other for urinating in a public place.
With the gig over and the guitars back in the tour bus, Neal took a moment to reflect on the nights work.
"I think that the audience got where we were coming from. They understood us and we gave them what they wanted."
Last week the band gave the audience something.....but sadly the 15 new recruits to the STD clinic did not feel the same way.
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