Skeletons | Live Review

Skeletons and the Empty Pockets
Vintage Rockbar, Doncaster, August 8 2009

When it comes to live performances Sheffield’s Skeletons and the Empty Pockets simply ooze appeal. Strutting onstage, the former thisGIRL group instantly injects 10,000 volts into the building, leaving the hairs on the back of your neck not only raised but singed to the bone. While lead singer Liam waltzes through the crowd flashing a dazzling smile and jazz hands at unsuspecting spectators, the band’s dirty blues rattles the ceiling with delight.

Single ‘Oh Brother Oh Sister’ is an alternative gem, building into an inevitable chart smash, while ‘Pack That Suitcase’ leaves us in awe as the heavy rock riffs and honky tonk piano engulfs the venue. Then as Liam leaps to the ceiling rushing through the audience it’s clear Skeletons are the dirtiest, meanest group in the North, giving a stab of electricity to the brain that not even they can extinguish.

Ruth Offord

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