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BRMC started their career with a huge buzz as part of the league of “saviours of rock ‘n’ roll” that included The Strokes and The Vines waaaaay back in 2001. Their self-titled debut was gritty, bluesy and ballsy – it was something you hadn’t heard in a long time. Come 2010, most of these “saviours” have disappeared from the rock world; even The Strokes had poor follow up albums. So to for BRMC – 2003’s Take Them On, On Your Own was okay, 2006’s Howl was disappointing, but they gained some ground with Baby 81 from 2007. But tonight at Fowler’s Live BRMC showcase cuts from this years Beat The Devil’s Tattoo long-player, as well as plundering their vaults from the last decade.

The band, complete with expressionless faces and a shitload of black, enter the small stage to the usual screams from the sold out crowd – not bad for a Tuesday night in Adelaide! They rip into a barrage of tracks from their new album and hit the crowd with a wall of bluesy, no-frills rock ‘n’ roll. New songs like War Machine, Aya, Mama Taught Me Better and the awesome title track, sat well along with old favourites like Red Eyes and Tears, Berlin, Stop, Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll (Punk Song) and the stomping Ain’t No Easy Way.

You could say BRMC never use the entire stage, but where they lack in actual stage movement, they make up for in their music. The one-man wall of sound – bassist Robert Levon Been – played his usual pissed-off rock. He even found time to share vocals with guitarist Peter Hayes; one bleeding into the other rather nicely. Add to this the smoke and fog show, and eye piercing strobe lights that should have caused epileptic fits.

Amongst the noise and fog, they found a moment for a bit of piece and quiet, with Been and Hayes – even though he had a sore throat – taking turns during an acoustic interlude halfway through the set, which included an interesting version of Dirty Old Town. Okay, peace and quiet over, back to the rawk!

The show was just shy of two hours. A 20 minute encore included a ten minute version of Six Barrel Shotgun which caused the crowd to erupt. They still sound as good as they did back in ye olde days of 2001.

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