Spotify Playlist 17/12/2015

Spotify Playlist
17/12/15

Every week, The Real Thing's SPOTIFY playlist will update with songs from bands who have featured in the recent posts and songs that you should be listening to.

This week we have tracks from the likes The Psychedelic Furs, Archy Marashall, King Krule, Kurt Vile, JAWS and LoneLady. 

Next Thursday the playlist will update once again! 

To listen to the playlist click HERE . 

JAWS Live at The Joiners Southampton

JAWS live at The Joiners Southampton

09/12/2015

Since supporting fellow Birmingham-based indie bands like Swim Deep and Peace, JAWS have progressed significantly, creating a diverse sound and enhancing their live shows. On Wednesday the 9^th of December they played the Joiners in Southampton and only enhanced the aforementioned credentials.

Amongst the sea of denim shirts and skinny jeans stands the Joiners stage where in a few moments JAWS will blow the roof off the venue. The set begins with a new song. ‘What we haven’t got yet” which harks back to the band’s debut album “Be Slowly” full of great indie-pop hits. From the first couple of songs it’s clear that the band are great musicians. The guitars are melodic, intricate and have a really nice summery twang to them. The drums are solid, and the bass holds everything together. This all comes to a head when the band treat the audience to ‘Toucan Surf’ a track form their “Milkshake” EP. The floor begins to shake as the crowd started to seriously get in to the music. As the pace of the night is slowed with the harmonic “Think too much feel little” JAWS show us that whilst catchy two and a half minute indie-pop songs are all well and good, it’s great to have those subtle tracks which add depth to the bands live shows.

The highlight of the night arguably is the run of song leading up to the climax. ‘Be Slowly’ the perfect accompaniment to a summers afternoon lights up the dingy joiners, before another new track ‘Bad Company’ completely changes the mood. It’s a heavy and grunge-tinted song which shows the band in a new light. Gone are the summery guitars and in their place come distorted guitars which don’t lack any bite at all.

With a new album recorded and ready to go, JAWS are a band definitely on the rise and with live shows that are as polished as a band who have been on the road for 20 years, the future looks bright for the band. 

All photos taken by me. 

JAWS live at the Haunt in Brighton

JAWS live at the Haunt in Brighton

JAWS are a melodic sounding four piece who hail from Birmingham who's debut album "Be Slowly" was released on the 15th of September and they began their UK tour on the same day beginning at The Haunt in Brighton. 

There were two support bands, the first being Bristol based garage rock outfit "Milk Teeth" who actually deserved a bigger crowd than what they got, but the members of the audience who did stick around got a thirty minute blast of heavy energetic sounds reminiscent to that of The Wytches and Wolf Alice. The second support band were "Fickle Friends" from Brighton and they were almost the polar opposite to "Milk Teeth" their songs were full of cheerful upbeat sounds similar to The 1975, It sounded like they had worked hard on getting the drum beat and bass line very compact and it made for a good sounding set. 

JAWS were greeted with roaring applause and then launched in to their set opening with the brilliant "Be Slowly" which is full of guitar melodies which sound like a match made in heaven. The guitars were extremely intricate and melodic throughout the set which is credit to the band because it gives them a very unique sound and a power to make you feel like you are on another planet similar to that of fellow Birmingham based indie band Swim Deep. As well as this ability, they have the power to make an audience take note and start jumping around and during the superb track "Filth" the audience began to jump around and some even got on to the stage and began crowd-surfing! As the set progressed, the impressive thing about JAWS was the quality of the music. The bass and drums were extremely tight and the guitars were superb, lots of echo and reverb mixed with convoluted parts. JAWS ended with "Stay In" and "Gold" both of which got the biggest reaction from the crowd and the whole room began dancing! Another good thing about the gig was the fact that the band themselves looked like they really enjoyed what they were doing which you don't always see, they all moved around and danced and smiled a lot too which is refreshing to see. 

Overall JAWS were extremely enjoyable, lots of calming melodies coupled with intricate guitar sounds which gives them something unique which could set them apart from other indie bands of this generation. If you're a fan of Swim Deep then I recommend that you have a listen to JAWS.