23 May 2024
Band: COACH PARTY
Who: Fast up-and-coming indie team from Isle of Wight,
England who hit the scene back in 2019
Members: Jess Eastwood (singer/bassist), Steph Norris (guitar),
Joe Perry (guitar) and Guy Page(drummer)
Work: Last year’s striking debut LP Killjoy (stream/buy below)
Concert: Le Botanique, Brussels, 22 May 2024
This was the last gig of Coach Party‘s Euro tour, but with all the sweat they left
on the floor after about 75 minutes it felt like it was their first one. They gave all
of their hearts and souls, and all of their wholehearted energy, and all of their rad
power-pop-punk firepower to a rapturous ‘we know all the songs’ fan audience. The
band thought nobody would show up on this out-of their home country trip. No-no.
They’re way more indie addicts (like me) around the world, than any mainstream fan would think, who scan the overwhelming amount of music that comes non-stop across their hungry ears, looking for envigorating stuff that draws their mind and spirit away, for a while, from the world’s daily competitive and exhausting rat race.
Enter Coach Party who took the stage in Brussels last night with AC/DC’s Highway To Hell steaming out of the speakers. A 30-second fist-in-the-air foreplay that set the shaky tone in an eye/ear blink.
The Isle Of Wight 4-piece embed their vision on all things human – good and bad – in an out-of-your-fucking- head sound that doubles your adrenalin production on the spot. If you never heard of CP check cast iron juggernauts such as Micro Aggression, July and What’s The Point In Life? (family and discovering awesome music, for me).
All towering pop melodies, punked-up and grunged-up, creating a fuzz-and-buzz state of ecstasy on and off the podium. The fact, they’re so down to earth and have all the fun in the world up there, pushes their honesty, credibility and lovability through the roof, that almost went off literally when the decibels went up, even more than before, with a final hat-trick of thundering left/right uppercuts All I Wanna Do Is Hate, Feel Like A Girl and Parasite. Wowzers! If there’s one thing they don’t do, it’s kill joy.
Highway to Coach Party! Hell yeah!
Setlist
KILLJOY
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CP: Instagram – Website
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume