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 <p align="center"><font color="#990000" size="+3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>ORANGE GOBLIN, DIXIE WITCH & JECANO<br></strong></font><br><font color="#333333" size="+1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>LONDON UNDERWORLD 12/04/08</font><p>



A Saturday night at the Underworld and a home show from the Gob meant that this was one that was bound to be packed to the rafters. Luckily for Jecano there were plenty in to watch them jam and groove and warm us up with some Southern sounding stoner blues. They only got a review a couple of weeks ago and obviously the songs made an impression at the time as I instantly recognised much of their set. They do a good job of making you feel like a redneck in the last chance saloon and musically are the sort of band that would be well suited to playing the sort of place in From Dusk Till Dawn, vampires not necessarily obligatory. One thing that you probably wouldn�t guess is that they hail from Windsor rather than somewhere like Arkansas. With riffs sounding like they had escaped from a particularly heavy Zeppelin of the Led variety they went from smouldering to smoking and certainly warmed us all up nicely.<p>

Dixie Witch were the real deal coming from Austin Texas, hell they even have a band member called Clayton (not quite Cletus but close enough y�all hear). They came on with what almost resembled blast-beats courtesy of drummer / vocalist Trinidad Leal (what a damn name) and proceeded to sound like a garage band in the process of blowing up their garage. They did exactly what the first song title messily scrawled on a piece of torn up paper described and �Set The Speed�. The bassist C.C. (sure there is a Cletus there somewhere) was dancing barefoot and I guessed he may well have hocked his boots in a Camden pawn store to buy some old gut-rot.<p>

Well it was easy to get into this even if the drummer did occasionally seem to forget that he wasn�t actually in a death metal band. There was one hell of a lot of power behind the delivery here and songs such as �Ballinger Cross� supremely rocked out and thudded out like a home run guaranteed to get you a blowjob by every single cheerleader in the squad and probably some of their mothers too. Every time the drums got whacked it felt like your bowels were gonna drop through the floor. The sound of the Lone Star State was doing the job for the audience too and there was plenty of bouncing around. A drum solo was followed by a Texas guitar massacre and some heartfelt vocals sounding like Chris Robinson cutting himself with a large blade. �Out In The Cold� was a bit of a power ballad, one to drunk drive home to and spend the night locked out as the chains well and truly bolted on the trailer door. Good enjoyable stuff �What You Want� yep we got it all right.<p>

OG, Original Gangster? Nope Orange Goblin fool. I knew the pit was going to be a bit on the silly side for this and attempted to run in and fire out some photos quickly as they rattled into things. After getting bounced around like a sack of spuds on a trampoline and getting some great shots of the inside of Ben�s nasal cavity I decided to abandon all hope and chill out to the shipwrecked sounds of �Aquatic Fanatic�. I could go on a reminiscing trip and say �when I was a young man, we used to watch them doing this when it first came out to ten men and a dog, a pint of beer were only 2 and 6 as well� but that would just annoy you I�m sure.<p>

Times have changed, (for Christ-sakes Ben was drinking a bottle of water) and the group have plenty more songs these days. They gave us a great historical tour as well on this set, taking in some of those early numbers as well as via the Great Fire which was far from healed with �Cities Of Frost�. It was roasting in here as well. Whether it was the beer making me think this but this was the first time I have ever thought of any similarities between the Gob and Rage Against The Machine but boy were Joe�s fret wahs wailing out like bullets (in the name). 
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The sound tonight was far from clean and pleasant in fact the best word to describe it would be �hoary�. It made the whole thing sound anarchic and distorted as it boomed out and really worked well. Much respect for the dedicating of �They Come Back� to Fulci (R.I.P.) and Argento, this was no slow moving fucker though and it bit like a bitch. One of the highlights was �Some You Win Some You Lose� which won basically with everyone singing along and flinging their fists in the air. <p>

By this point notes were illegible but the dream was not over. We got a harmonica player joining in and some slide guitar playing from the visiting Yanks, for a second I thought we were actually going to get Duelling Banjos but no, I am pretty sure it was Scorpionica that delivered the final sting on a great drunken riot of a show.<p>



  
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Pete Woods<p>
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