Flanked
by a suitably frightful pumpkin entourage, Nick Mulvey provided
Nottingham’s intimate Rescue
Rooms
no
Friday night Halloween frights but rather, placed a further marker
down as to his growing stature as a pioneer of an acoustic sound
bursting with rhythm, texture and an utterly unrelenting melodic
soundscape.
Oporto is yet another
small Leeds venue with ideas above its station yet still manages to
pull it off, playing host to a number of stellar gigs, featuring
mainly acts on an upward curve. Tonight it’s the turn of surf dudes
Sunset Sons, a trio of Brits and an Australian whose paths first
crossed at a bar in Hossegor down in the south-west of France. Since
that fateful meeting, they’ve traded-in a little wave time for the
rock and roll lifestyle, a self-promoted debut ‘Le Surfing’ EP
making the Top Ten on the iTunes rock chart earlier in the
year.
