Outside, storm Ciara is starting to unleash her deluge but upon entering a full to bursting Warehouse, the wrath of the elements is unceremoniously being told to do one for the next 90 minutes. Yep, we’re talking a proper Yorkshire Saturday night rock and roll party with Bradford’s very own Terrorvision winding back the clock to their 1990s heyday, the venue positively bouncing as weskit clad Tony Wright and bandmates busy themselves in finishing the job of tearing the place a new one they started the night before.
It's almost a decade since ‘Super Delux’ the Bradford quintet’s sixth and most recent long-player
hit the shelves, yet tickets for their latest weekend Leeds residency sold like hot cakes, fans eager
to repay the hours of listening pleasure by turning up in their hundreds to enjoy a hometown
hoedown of sorts, always guaranteed to up the ante at any gig, tonight proving no exception.
With virtually no new material to get in the way of Terrorvision classics, the quintet are in top
form, clearly delighted to be centre of attention once more, reeling off hit after hit without
pausing for breath, landing blow after blow between the eyes like one of Balboa’s classic
combinations. The ‘Duane Eddy’ influenced ‘Pretend Best Friend’ is served up first and before you
know it ‘Middleman’ and debut single ‘My House’ have been and gone, the latter’s finale creating
a million Zebedees stage front, the building’s structure thankfully withstanding the twin assaults
from outside and within.
With ‘Don’t Shoot My Dog’ as well as No.2 smash ‘Tequila’ tonight’s only noticeable omissions
from a 23-song setlist, arguably the evening’s most surreal moment occurs at the start of the
encore, Terrorvision’s main performance ending with the ever-catchy ‘Perseverance’. The reemerging Wright then introduces the band’s most recent composition released late last year ‘Our
Christmas Song’, always a sure fire winner in February although it’s on record that Slade’s festive
classic ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ was still in the UK charts as late as February 1974 so hey, what
do I know?
Anyway, we get ‘Alice What’s the Matter’ and ‘Oblivion’ before the hot sweaty throng departs
into the increasingly wet and windy night, satiated by their fix of good time rock and roll courtesy
of their local heroes.
Words: Mike Price
Terrorvision official