After reading everything over the past few months, I had to check them out on their first trip to
As many of the reviews say, these youngsters do not hold anything back. Easy to spot the influences with these guys but they don’t just stop there, they push and push their sound at you throughout their set, and its really an assault of the best kind.
They start their set with "Clash like" song...which certainly wakes a few people up...then slip into a few more songs that bring in their influences from bands like the Strokes and in the meantime, they switch singers.
They push you with punk and settle down and soothe you with some very smooth pub rock/rock n roll ...its really a treat to see youngsters pull it off and it gives you hope that this young band, Palma Violets, will be around for awhile.
As of now, the only music available from them in Canada are two ep's with "Step up for Cool Cats" and "Best of Friends/Last of the Summer Wine" and these songs do come off really well live but its the other songs that give me hope!
Lets see where these guys go...all I know is that they have already booked another show in Toronto, now in a venue that holds 10 times as many fans as the Horseshoe, so get in while you can!
Jim
