The Hours, Antony Genn and Martin Slattery, already have a pretty impressive CV between them boasting working with the Joe Strummer, Pulp, and Elastica. I guess I shouldn’t have been quite so surprised when Ronnie Wood bustles past me to try and get a bit nearer the front. Also in attendance was Serj from Kasabian.
The venue, Proud Galleries, tucked away inside the stables market in Camden is an amazing conversion of a stable block retaining most of its original features creating quite a surreal atmosphere. This continued when the band took to the stage in front a large Damien Hirst designed psycadelic skull whom is another one of the groups ‘Famous Friends’.
Taking to the stage the band played through a set of piano and guitar based Britpop starting with fan favourite, the anthemic single from their previous album ‘Ali in the Jungle’ which sets the room pulsating with energy. As the evening progresses its clear some songs are stronger than others. For example their new single, piano lead ‘See the Light’ contrastingly was far less upbeat and felt rather bloated. It seemed to meander around the point, trickling rather than flowing with the more ambient landscape of the song becoming gradually disinteresting.
Unfortunately there are countless other bands with this sort of sound and tonight The Hours didn’t really exhibit anything to distinguish them from the pack. There was energy and the performance very technically very good, but there wasn’t really a spark in their music to entice me.
4/10
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