Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The sound of an honest beating heart is perhaps the greatest aphrodisiac around. The desire to hear the words and playful teasing notes of musicians who you understand just really like what they do; who just want to entertain, educate and inform the listener of a world beyond the beige and the creeping insidiousness of believing that television has all the answers, to listen with desire is enough to break and rebuild your heart several times over.
With a beat so furiously uplifting and that would take offence if a bouncer stopped it from entering a venue, possibly taking it to task over its impertinence, Steve Thompson, Phil Bernia and Phil Oakes have once more grabbed the attention of the music listening public and delivered a pre-festive treat in their latest single Rainbows that stimulates the musical muscle and makes the mind grasp for more.
Rainbows is the type of heavy duty song that listeners of another decade would go out of their way to listen to on the Top 40 and mark its progress. For many the charts don’t mean anything anymore, but for a brief glowing moment, you could only wish for Steve Thompson & The Incidents that the national desire to get a non-plastic, not endorsed by television and their chilling corporate sanction, band to number one would resurface.
A great band, a great tune, full of life and vitality and with the grin of a person kicking down the door of those who suggest that music has to be endorsed by media moguls and smiling firmly when they ask where the next kick should be placed.
Rainbows is available to download on November 30th
Ian D. Hall