Geordie

GEORDIE

Musician Pub August 16th 2023

Somehow the band GEORDIE managed to avoid my attention totally back in the day, so tonight I was interested to go to see the regenerated 2023 version of the band

Geordie now includes two of the original members of the band - Tom Hill (Bass) and Brian Gibson (Drums) and is now completed by Steve Dawson (from the Animals/guitar) and Terry Slesser (Back Street Crawler & Kossoff-Band Plays On/Vocals)

The Band hit the stage and were soon into their rocking stride delivering a fairly authentic slice of basic 70's hard rock with Tom & Brian laying down a formidable beat to drive the band and Steve playing some incisive guitar. Terry is one of the finest rock vocalists around and delivered his usual high quality performance throughout.

Highlights of the show for me were probably the two Animals songs - We gotta get out of this Place and House of the Rising Sun (i know it isn't originally an Animals song, but is associated with them) and Tina Turners "Nutbush City Limits.

The band showed themselves to be fine musicians and played with a great deal of energy and conviction and were clearly enjoying the gig and engaging the audience... however, for me it all started to merge into one thing, and became, for me, rather monotonous.

At the end of the day, i saw Geordie, enjoyed the evening but thats as far as it goes... they didn't excite me and sadly will not be on my list of bands to see again..

Final comment... very short set!!

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