KING KING / BROKEN WITT REBELS | LIVE PREVIEW
The Globe, Cardiff, Fri 13 Jan
Cardiff! Your New Year resolution should include checking out the acts playing at venues across town. Go see bands that you may not have heard of but once you have you will want to again and again. Start your musical voyage of discovery at The Globe, Albany Road on Fri 13. Considered unlucky by some, but everyone who walks into the venue will leave feeling lucky.
Why? You will have heard music that will rock your socks off. Full of melodies, guitar licks and vocals that leave earworms of delight. Fri 13 sees King King and Broken Witt Rebels hit the town with sets full of soul, blues licks and a large dollop of charisma and starshine.
This is not the first or last trip to Cardiff for King King, who always delight with the swirl of Alan Nimmo’s [pictured] kilt amidst the cascade of Hammond keys and a rhythm section that lays down the beat. King King’s first-ever live album King King – Live hit the No.1 spot in Amazon’s Best Sellers Blues Chart and was recently voted #1 at Blues Rock Review‘s Top 5 Best Live Albums Of 2016 polls. The live album triumph follows King King’s recent win of five awards at the British Blues Awards: Best Male Vocal (Alan Nimmo), Best Bass Player (Lindsay Coulson), Best Song (Rush Hour), Best Album (Reaching For The Light) and Best Songwriter.
Playing for the first time in Cardiff, young exuberant Midlands band Broken Witt Rebels are building on the success of debut EP Georgia Pine with the two singles gaining airplay on Planet Rock. This Feeling said of them: “One of the best new live bands in the country, it’s a matter of time before they explode onto the big stages.” A Best Rock Act gong at the first Unsigned Music Awards putting the quartet on the must-see-live road map of 2017.
Get your tickets and do not miss out on the chance to buy vinyl copies of music you will want to take home with you.
Tickets: £20. Info: 07590 471888 / www.globecardiffmusic.com
words LIZ AIKEN photos LAURENCE HARVEY