Koko, Mornington Crescent, London. My favourite venue, a tight ex theatre on at least four levels and on this night, packed to the rafters. Vintage Trouble are in town.
What followed in a lightning 85 minute set was an object lesson on how to entertain your audience. From driving R&B rock from the tight three piece lead, bass and drums (Nalle Colt, Rick Barrio Dill and Richard Danielson) to the charismatic Ty Taylor on vocals this was on hell of a performance. starting off with the band shaking each others hands, to finally leaving the stage and walking through the audience to make their way to the small front foyer to meet and greet all the Troublemakers as they left the auditorium with large smiles on their faces.
The first time I saw them was some three years previous in a 25 minute set in the middle of St Pancras Station and managed to have a little chat with Taylor and Colt they were approachable back then. Later that year we saw them play a friends club The Plug, in Sheffield. with privileged access managed to sit on the stage right next to Dill and saw at close quarters the effort they put in. And it was there that I became aware of Taylor's penchant of going into the audience and wondered in this packed venue how was he going to repeat it. Should not have worried for about half way through a change to a roving mike signalled something was going to happen. It sure did, surfing the audience, running upstairs to the third level balcony, dancing in with the audience and on he went.
One last thing of note was the audience, an age mix which separated into two distinct zones. The oldies where generally found on the balconies with the youngsters down on the floor.
Brilliant. 9/10
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