Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The Monster is always there, it doesn’t need to hide itself away under the bed, nor smirk in the darkness of the closet, the monster is alive where ever it wants to take reign and infect its bleak despondency; it is the prerogative of such things to be visible because we allow them to be.

Beasts rarely come along uninvited, they require a inducement, a temptation to attend the breaking down of barriers between one world and another and in the timely hands of Steve Thompson and the Incidents such a temptation of spirit is forthcoming as Monster slams down with the force of a sledgehammer wielded by a god of thunder.

In the same way that the song Rainbows digs deep into the heart of the fan, so Monster comes along and squashes all the remains of the pitiful and the so called alienated into the ground and asks for no substitution to be made, for the enticement of a great song is all that is truly needed in which to harness the power that Steve Thompson and the Incidents put out.

If monsters do exist and away from the ones that Humanity creates in which to frighten vulnerable adults, small children and unsuspecting citizens of a country that harbours such beasts in their midst and places them into positions of power, then the image of Mary Shelly fighting off the power of persuasion to rock out over a candlelit fugue state whilst bringing a deranged Doctor’s colossal creature to life is more than just a vision to behold. It is the recognition that the ultimate monster has been created and it is a Monster that brings a smile to the face.

Steve Thompson and the Incidents never lose faith in what they bring to the Liverpool music table, neither should their fans.

Ian D. Hall