That gig was a bit of a last minute affair. I'd been humming and hawing about it for a while. I wasn't very familiar with anything ESP had put out since their first album and I had the Jason Falkner the following night. I made my mind up on the day of the gig and decidedto skip the 2 opening acts (not very nice I know but I needed some rest before the gig). I arrived at the venue round 8.30pm halfway through set of second opening act "Cold Crows Dead", I won't say anything about their set as I wasn't receptive at all to the music they played. Apart that they seem also to come from Brighton, they didn't have anything in common with ESP.
ESP came on stage at 9.30pm with the White brothers accompanied by a four piece backing band with a female vocalist on a few numbers. The brothers seemed genuinely pleased by the turnout. I recognised quite a few numbers from the new record but the new numbers from recent LP "Idiots" sustained the comparison pretty well with older songs. The show was marred by quite a few sound issues, the sound in the venue was really cavernous and Alex White seemed to be really struggling with his monitors. Thomas tried to cheer him up during the gig but he seemed to be really pissed off about it (things took a turn for the worse when Thomas pinched his brother's backside halfway through the gig). The backing did a great job, they all seem to be long time collaborators of ESP. It would definitely have been a mistake not coming to that gig and I highly recommend the purchase of their latest LP which is their best record to date.
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