BLACKOUT / JNR LOADED : THE FOUNDRY

Modern rock music is starting to gain credibility again,even outside the usual confines of Kerrang and Metal Hammer, bands like Limp bizkit,Korn,Slipknot taking the power and aggression from their crusty old forebears but selling it with all the production values of the finest hip hop mixes .

Sure ,there s always Bon Jovi comebacks to slow the momentum and remind us all how crap rock music can be,but the next generation of rockers after this one will be an interesting bunch,less touched by Nirvana,surrounded by Britney but maybe able to infuse the noise with some of the intelligent herbs of Radiohead ,the street angles of   Dre and  a lyrical content that doesn't revolve around knobs,woman,evil spirits or self pitying whining.

Both bands tonight are young ,first impressions of this developing future,JNR LOADED play with the moves and attitude of a young ,cool Beastie Boys with Thom Yorke occasionally guesting in between the riffs(no of course he wasn't there in person,its a comparison ,idiot).

Two lead vocalists pushing the songs between out and out glass gargling screams and no I m not lying ,terrific melody that strokes the hairs on the back of your neck as if Cameron Diaz has just sat down behind you and whispered ,its you I want, got any hair gel.

I ve walked in on bands like this 3 or 4 times in 10 or so years and every time its the same feeling,chemistry,biology and physics,right time same place,explosive spontaneous combustion.ka boom,Jnr Loaded,I like em so much I wanna buy their company........

BLACKOUT are playing their first gig tonight,they ve all been in bands since their first public(sic) hair,but this is a line up they believe in and as far as you or I are concerned the message is "get into it or stand aside as we  come over the top of you"

Two guitarists hammering out riff after riff of uncompromising intensity but again with the bouncing rappy vocal delivery that comes from the public enemy  / nwa school of rock.Its street music that could have been created in Harlem,by kids just as disenfranchised,just as desperate,,just as under represented by the people who control their lives.

It doesn t matter that their set is beset by technical problems, BLACKOUT  make an impressive opening statement of their campaign,they know they ve still got the work to put in and the gigging experience to get under their belts,but if things continue with the pace and momentum they ve started with,Blackout could be the best of the current crop of top notch hardcore bands gracing this area.