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I wanna rock with you all night long12/27/2023 The first couple of these being ‘Don’t Tell Me What I Did Last Night’ and ‘Emergency 2020’, which to me had serious nods to The Stooges meets the rawest Rolling Stones meets 999. Tonight was still very much all about their ‘Something’s Got To Give’ album, as no less than seven tracks were culled from it. This was the only tune from that release that they performed this evening. They kick off with ‘Strung Out Sin City’ which can be found on their jolly decent ‘Freakshow’ 10” vinyl mini-album from 2016. The DeRellas set lasts for 55 minutes (from 9:33pm to 10:28pm) and consists of eleven career spanning works. THE DERELLAS at The Prince Albert, Brighton 7.12.23 (pics Nick Linazasoro) The venue is unfortunately not full, which is a shame, but there are many gigs happening in Brighton tonight and of these we are covering four of them – reviews to follow! The current lineup features Timmy DeRella (bass, lead vocals), Luca DeRella (lead guitar, backing vocals), Jez Miller (guitar) and Steve Grainger (drums) and these are the guys in front of me tonight at The Prince Albert. We last met up with the flamboyant glam punkster quartet at the annual Rebellion punk festival in Blackpool at the Pavilion on 7th August 2022 and they were certainly going at it. Four singles and three albums see us up to August 2021, with that album being the anthemic ‘Something’s Got To Give’, with its rock solid action packed dozen tracks, it signified the band at the top of their game. The outfit first got ‘All Fired Up’ when they dropped their debut EP of that name back in 2007 and dropped their first long player ‘Hollywood Monsters’ in 2009. If you are an avid fan of the work of the likes of Cleveland Ohio’s Dead Boys or Michigan’s finest sons The Stooges or New York City’s Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers or even the New York Dolls, then you will be interested in hearing what The DeRellas have to offer! Sweet, creamy and with a bitter kick of heartbreak somewhere deeper in the mix.THE DERELLAS + MING CITY ROCKERS + MARTIN SAVAGE AND THE JIGGERZ – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 7.12.23 And Cher continues to pour her deep and distinctive vocals over the familiar melodies like Bailey’s over ice. Tyga’s there to rap about sitting her on his lap. Hey, she’s brought Stevie Wonder and Darlene Love (82-year-old singer from vintage girl group Blossoms) and sweary schmaltz king Michael Bublé to duet over the church bells and echoey acoustic guitar of his old song “Home”. We got Cher, babe! She’s here! At the door, taking off her boots. One that’s like all the sparkly old hits on Cher’s new album – one of silly, profound, predictable crackers sparking and connecting through time. Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign upīut when my kids come downstairs, I’ll throw on all the big festive hits like Christmas jumpers, drawing them into a culture they can wrap around themselves like scarves. Uncle Chris Rea? I think he’s still stuck in traffic, but let’s keep our hearts warm for him…”Įnjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Be nice if Chris de Burgh tells you he’s seen a spaceship, and remember to give George Michael back his heart on the way out – he left it here last Christmas. Oh, and there, right behind her? It’s Paul McCartney simply having a wonderful time and his old mucker John Lennon – he’s always asking what you’ve done with your year. “Oh look!” I will find myself warning my kids in mid-November: “Here comes Aunty Mariah Carey! Now, c’mon, I know the high notes are really annoying, but she’s had a hard time, what with Twitter/X refusing to blue tick her status as Queen of Christmas, so be nice and sing along. And Christmas, after all, is the time when even the musically snobby households cast their “taste” aside and grant safe passage to all the gaudy, cheesy, awkward, oddball, clashing sounds they’d reject at other times of the year, just as they agree to tolerate the discordant worldview of their wider circle of friends and relatives. By the time she tells us that “The red and the green lights/ Are hitting me just right”, I imagine we’re all in. Cher has been making records since 1965, making her feel like family to most of us. But the 77-year-old singer knows how to sell a line. The electro pulse strung through it feels off the peg. And, OK, “DJ Play a Christmas Song” is a tacky kind of number. It feels only right that Cher is getting in on the act. Yes, Christmas is coming, which means Christmas adverts, Christmas films and Christmas albums. DJ play a Christmas song/ I wanna be dancing all night long,” commands Cher on the first single from her new festive album: Christmas.
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