Room 2, Glasgow
Wednesday 08th November, 2023
Glasgow’s Room 2 was packed for this November gig. It’s one of the coolest venues, with a great steaming atmosphere. We were there for the much anticipated His Lordship, a band of normally only two who play guitar and vocals and the other drums (beat), but we were treated to a bass for this rhythmical class act. It felt like two gigs after support act, the revered Louis McVey & Cracks in the Concrete, who collaborate for a super rock n’ roll.
This November tour around UK (a single special gig in Glasgow) kicked off with their super abundant energy, and an immediate playfulness stormed the room with a punk filled rock n’ roll.
Their engine of music is off the back of an Album called ‘Buzzkill’ released this year, and their roots have been replanted in an expertly happy return from that lock down thing.
The sound that filled the room has come from Rock royalty roots, these guys have played and written with the likes of the Pretenders, the Pogues, Chrissie Hynde, and they have set about making fresh music as His Lordship that has grown arms and legs.
This new project is all about re-finding those roots, they have recalled the reason they play music in the first place and this gig was a fired up return from bleak days like a new arrow ready to fire. The crowd lapped up their like for a band who were loud, jovial and played with an experienced energy with great themes and vivaciously fun sheer electric music.
Combining many things that went straight into the joy of a room enthralled. Hailing from everything from early blues, 50’s rock n’ roll and with a very clearly stated exploration of the here and now. Their interviews are as energetic and explosive as their succeeding renewal of a music that rocks with delectation, precision, passion and bursting with the ability to create a return and a propelling future.
Bursting in their cheap suits, with a completion of a music as pure as Robert Johnson, as lively as Jerry Lee Lewis and as fruitful as James Brown. In a venue that come’s alive more than anywhere in the City, the gig took everything to its absolute limit especially that of enjoying music. Using it to express an urge and urgency with a skill that blew the room into a cacophony, rock n’ roll magic on a quiet Wednesday evening in November.
Can’t wait for their next one, their 8 shows left on this tour are set to be something special, as they knock the roof off with meticulous energy, sincerity expressed to the point of absurdity of what can be done in music and how much we can revere the music on stage, if they come to a venue near you it’s worth going.
Daniel Donnelly
Mumble Music 