Sunday 20/04/03 Vendetta Red @ Academy 2, Liverpool

Piebald sound like the Calling covering the Dawson's Creek theme with the singer from Saves the Day filling in for vocals. The singer also has an annoying "only in the American Deep South and 1980s Merseyside" moustache, it took a large amount of effort and alcohol to resist urges to go buy some Bics when I saw him standing next to me during Vendetta Red's set. He wore green as well, anybody who's read the adverts on the tube knows that only black women should wear green. This isn't a fashion show you might say to yourself, but Zach Davidson disagreed on the night.

Any man whose day job is being a rock star and yet still has such glossy, healthy looking hair clearly has a secret. Perhaps he washes it using raw Vendetta Red energy, extracted in a process of crowd interactions; be it legging around the mosh pit or getting the local obese kid on stage to scream along (the ADHD brat that ate a Mars bar out of Goldfinger's drummer's ass).

The ingredients also contain some Pro-Vitamin cool-as-**** guitar playing as well as a thrash and lyrical style that would leave vocal coaches across the globe reeling in horror. Vendetta Red a good band do make but I'd like to hear more of the lyrics. I've never listened to a Vendetta track before, so I just wasn't getting it on the night.

Photo by Sean Bickerton :: sean.bickerton@gigwise.com