The
Zutons! The Zutons screach into place with a demented
blues chicken scratch of Zuton fever. Falling in behind
Abi Harding's creaky sax the whole band is of a singular
sound, voodoo wahoo and lurking sharp shadows. Suited
out in matching lab coats the band heads straight for
the jugular, as lead man Dave McGrabe complains about
the "Pressure Point". The warped beat presses
for what it can't get, a cure for this disease. Let's
hope they never find it and keep the scream alive.
Maybe it's the past that ails him: a tight bobbing call
to an 'ex-lover' throbs away before giving in to the heights
of a short sax n guitar solo. The rocker "Where Will
You Sleep Tonight" creeps out of the swamp before
the Zutons get all sweet on the tracks with "Railroad".
How they got from Liverpool to the South is anyone's guess,
but obviously they're staying for a while.
It's a packed house and still "You Will You won't"
sends scragglers running in at the end. The Zutons have
rounded out the Red Marquee's day long course of new rock,
following The Killers, Snow Patrol and British Sea Power
on the Green Stage. And they have laid it to rest in the
crypt with their catchy dementia, their Screaming Jay
Hawkins tribute of mad, mad beats and heedless release.