03 March 2011
Metro Theatre, Sydney, NSW
Monday February 28
Monday February 28
Last time The Gaslight Anthem visited Australia they played to a crowd of around 350; but looking around Sydney’s sold out Metro theatre brimming with Teddy Boy hair-dos and rockabilly pin-up dresses, it’s no wonder the Jersey boys looked more than flattered when they stepped onstage the night after Soundwave.
Searing into High Lonesome and Old White Lincoln from their ’59 Sound album, the quartet may have delivered one 2-hour, booming rock ‘n’ roll set together but they couldn’t have looked more individual onstage.
Bassist Alex Levine quick-stepped his way through new tracks likeAmerican slang and The Spirit Of Jazz looking and moving like anElvis descendent.
“James brown and Freddie Mercury had a baby,” joked frontman Brian Fallon. He went on to tell us he lost his tooth in Germany and found it in America. “I'm gonna play this song and we'll figure the rest of that out later,” he said before pitch perfect track The Diamond Church Street Choir.
Fallon asked drummer Benny Horowitz to give him a backing soundtrack to his corny jokes, “damn man, I mighta got pregnant,” he laughed before indulging us with early track The ’59 Sound.
We were then treated to the brand spanking new and unreleased track, Biloxy Parish; “This ones out of pocket but don't be like ‘oh my god they're gonna write a blues record',” said Fallon. The crowd listened intently, almost trying to commit the drum-heavy song about homesickness to memory.
Early tracks like Here’s Looking At You Kid and The Backseat were sung along to with as much fervor as the largely new six-song encore including Bring It On, The Queen Of Lower Chelsea, Orphans and a cover of The Who’s Teenage Wasteland.
The two hours of unadulterated American rock flew by fast, leaving us both inordinately content and yearning for more.
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