HotWax and The Rills hit London for Dork's Night Out's Home & Away
Two bands. Two cities. Dork's Home & Away hits London for the first of two shows showcasing some of new music's hottest new talents.
Two bands. Two cities. Dork's Home & Away hits London for the first of two shows showcasing some of new music's hottest new talents.
Words: Ali Shutler.
Photos: Frances Beach.
Words: Ali Shutler.
Photos: Frances Beach.
HotWax’s Tallulah Sim-Savage turns to face the crowd, smirks and launches into the fuzzy defiance of unreleased track ‘High Tea’. It’s a hammering number that wraps the band’s emotional, surreal storytelling around frantic rock & roll. If we wrote it, we’d be smiling too.
HotWax have always created music for the live show and this year, they’ve really had the chance to put those practice room ambitions to the test. There’s been celebrated performances at The Great Escape, Reading & Leeds and the trio opened for The Strokes at All Point’s East. Next month, they’ll support Royal Blood on their UK tour before following them out to North America. With a mutual love of big, thundering guitar licks, it’s a perfect match but there’s more to HotWax than chunky riffs and heavy breakdowns. Tonight, as they headline the first night of Dork’s Night Out's Home & Away mini-series at London’s Colours, they look to a vibrant, agile future with a set that pulls heavily from new, unreleased and eclectic, rather than tried and tested turns.
Opening things up are The Rills, who also giddily bounce between styles. Opener ‘Stardog’ is a conversational slab of melodic indie, delivered with a touch of flamboyance, ‘Spit Me Out’ is a gnarled punk track with plenty of colour while upcoming single ‘Bones’ echoes Gorillaz’ cackling ‘Feel Good Inc’. “It’s always scary when you play a new song,” admits guitarist/vocalist Mitch Spencer but the band quickly dive into another newie. Throwing themselves into their 40-minute set, the noise trio only let up for a rose-tinted, slow dance before whipping the crowd into a frenzy once more with the fiery ‘Pyro’.
HotWax have always created music for the live show and this year, they’ve really had the chance to put those practice room ambitions to the test. There’s been celebrated performances at The Great Escape, Reading & Leeds and the trio opened for The Strokes at All Point’s East. Next month, they’ll support Royal Blood on their UK tour before following them out to North America. With a mutual love of big, thundering guitar licks, it’s a perfect match but there’s more to HotWax than chunky riffs and heavy breakdowns. Tonight, as they headline the first night of Dork’s Night Out's Home & Away mini-series at London’s Colours, they look to a vibrant, agile future with a set that pulls heavily from new, unreleased and eclectic, rather than tried and tested turns.
Opening things up are The Rills, who also giddily bounce between styles. Opener ‘Stardog’ is a conversational slab of melodic indie, delivered with a touch of flamboyance, ‘Spit Me Out’ is a gnarled punk track with plenty of colour while upcoming single ‘Bones’ echoes Gorillaz’ cackling ‘Feel Good Inc’. “It’s always scary when you play a new song,” admits guitarist/vocalist Mitch Spencer but the band quickly dive into another newie. Throwing themselves into their 40-minute set, the noise trio only let up for a rose-tinted, slow dance before whipping the crowd into a frenzy once more with the fiery ‘Pyro’.
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