Ok its been a few days so plenty of time to reflect and get my hearing back ;).

As you may have read a few weeks ago i posted a review on australian rock band Airbourne kick ass debut album Runnin’ Wild. So it was by no surprise i bought tickets to the what would be the sold out show in Birmingham.

The venue was quite small and cramped, literally a bar and then small stage set up, and packed in were 200+ people. I knew things would get pretty crazy. First on were support act “SkirtBox”, who surprisingly were very good!!! They had a late 70s early 80s Judas Priest feel to there music, with Motley Crue backing vocals, and sleazy lyrics rather than mystic wasteland warrior type stuff. They mentioned there album would be out in 3 months, and the crowd seemed rather pleased and really dug the band http://www.myspace.com/skirtbox Check em out i found there myspace, it has some demos up.

Now onto Airbourne. After a bit of waiting and a few crowd chants the band finally took the stage. Now what i loved was, they walked on, picked up there guitars, plugged in, and that was it, straight into kicking our asses.

They opened with album opener and crowd pleaser “Stand Up For Rock N Roll”, the crowd consisting of old school rockers like myself, older guys and strangely enough trendy emo types (thank you mainstream coverage, people are so easily influenced by the media haha) got right into it and as the song kicked in every head banged and jumped in unison. Sadly because it was such a small venue and Airbourne do what they write about “make your ears bleed” the band plays so loud such a small PA doesnt do it justice and the sound quality was variable and worse than the support acts set up. However the band made up for the bad sound set up with a high octane no bullshit performance. It was aggressive, raw and unpredictable, the way Rock N Roll should be.

Frontman Joel O Keeffe was one wild character, taking down his beers as he went, including Jack Daniels whiskey in which i am sure he snorted it at one point but cannot confirm haha. He could certainly pull off the vocals live, and also entertained a hell of alot. Including running through the crowd to the bar, standing on the bar to do a guitar solo, picking up his mic stand and throwing it around the small stage, and practically exploding a beer can with his forehead over the crowd. He was also a very nice dude after the show and had time for all the fans and a funny photo. The rest of the band wernt as sociable but all of them were down to earth and willing to speak to all the fans, have photos, sign things etc.

Id certainly say check these guys out if you get chance, after this small UK tour they are moving to the USA to tour and live. However once the USA tour is done they are coming straight back over to the UK for another tour in larger venues. Check them out you wont regret it!

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