Dolomite Minor Live at the Joiners in Southampton 20/11/14
After announcing their first European festival date for 2015
and playing a series of gigs across the UK, Dolomite Minor return to the Joiners arms in Southampton with
support from Spynes, Elxir and Bully Bones.
Twenty minutes after doors opened the joiners begins to fill
up with what look like college students which is what you might expect,
however, when the support bands start playing it turned out that those (what
might have been) college students take to the stage and start playing which
shows that Dolomite Minor are keen to give up and coming bands a chance to play
at a venue like the Joiners but unfortunately the bands and in particular the
second support band Elxir were below par in their performance sounding like a
band who had been drafted in last minute to fill a hole. Bully Bones had a 70s
pub rock feel about them and Spynes were old-school sleazy rock and roll with a
front-man who was (very clearly) up his own arse.
The anticipation grew rapidly when the audience of a nearly
sold out Joiners saw Dolomite Minor take to the stage and almost blow the roof
off the venue as they launch in to their thunderous opener ‘Girl of Gold’ the
crowd begin jumping almost instantaneously as the duo follow up the opener with
the bone crashing ‘Talk like and Aztec’ which was part of an XFM feature
entitled great expectations for 2014. There is then a pause for the first time
during the set as guitarist and vocalist Joe Grimshaw says “It feels good to be
back here” which is met with cheers followed by a distorted noise from Grimshaw’s
guitar as he begins ‘Hypnotise’ a heavily riff based blues rock blast which
vibrates the floor of the joiners and leaves your ears ringing.
The set ends with ‘Watch Yourself’ a song so full of
brilliant guitar riffs that it’s enough to make any guitarist want to go and
write and song, and ‘Let Me Go’ a song that builds and drops ferociously. It’s
clear that Dolomite Minor have a lot in their arsenal to give guitar music new
vigour and they have the potential to put Southampton on the music map.
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