Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 71/2/10
With a world that has so much going on a daily basis, sometimes an act may get overlooked. The fast pace of modern life ensuring that art mournfully suffers as the call on someone’s time eats into what would be a pleasurable experience. Either that or the prevalence to sit in an overcrowded bar with piped music assaulting the ears in much the same way waking up in amongst a flock of hungry seagulls at four in the morning would be inexcusably painful really is how people like to spend their spare time. Either way, to have missed Run Tiger Run give a commanding performance at the Zanzibar Club was one that should eat into the musical soul labelled regret.
To some, many a rock band usually morphs meaninglessly from one into another and the same would be true of many a rock fans look at the world of Rap or even Folk, they don’t see the complexity that is ground together, the absolute trust needed in which to get the full spectrum available to them. For Mike Bower, Ross Turner, Dan Piggott and Dan Fell, that trust emanates from the stage and into the ears of the attendee with the speed of ballistic missile aimed squarely at rocking the senses.
Run Tiger Run might take time to get on the radar of many in Liverpool but when they do it will be worth it. Their set list held something very enjoyable, something natural in the way they performed, trust in your fellow performer or even friend so hard to garner and so easily broken as quickly as offering your hand to somebody and having them retort slyly, and you are?
Run Tiger Run have trust in abundance, that much is clear, it isn’t the same thing as smiling all the way through a gig, perhaps in some cases the knives glaring at each other just as keenly as the musicians baring them, but it shows in the way the band play and in the comfortable nods.
In their music they more than complete the task at hand, their latest song Growing Older is a splendid addition to their set list, New Year’s Eve, Saturday/Sunday, Faces and the outstanding Flawless march with the purpose of an army intent on making sure an evil terrifying force retreats and implodes.
There is more to come from this band and you just know that the bigger the crowd, the more they will fulfil this early embryonic promise. A great set by an upcoming Rock band, what more could you ask for.
Ian D. Hall