White Blanks @ Captain Cook Hotel, 23rd Oct

“I’ve been trying to see White Blanks for a couple of years now, and for dumbass reasons kept missing them. Tonight is a lesson in delayed gratifcation – holy hell, they were fun. It’s way too easy for bands to let influences override personality, so that what you’re trying to sound like drowns out who you are. Not here. This is a band with their own voice and it’s both chock full of great songs and fucking hilarious. Inter-song banter includes stories of drinking bong water, there’s instrument swapping – which is much funnier when the swappers have a height difference of about a foot and a half – and the whole vibe just screams at you to have some fun. The songs though have real meat – think Hockey Dad on a five-day smoke bender and steroids – with the penultimate “Get Better” both looser and waaay bigger than on record. Worth waiting for? Oh my, yes.”

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