THE NARROW, 16 STITCH & INERSHA @ TEMPOS

Even though we keep promising each other that we will never take another step in, or trip over another drunken passed out teenager at Tempos, we are always lured back by some brilliant band.
To find out that we had missed MUNKINPURE’s set (AGAIN…the third time), bummed us out a bit, but surely the evening still had much promise.
I think we’ve been a bit unfair on 16 STITCH lately. We’ve seen this band so many times that we either leave before they play, arrive after a set, or just don’t go because we’ve “been there, done that”. We also gave them a bad review once for taking over an hour to set up for a set. We will be the first to admit that we can be fickle at times, and through it all we have actually forgotten how good these guys really are. They played a fantastic set and entertained the crowd more than I think anyone expected. Good going guys!

Some bands just seem unavoidable and INERSHA are currently that band. They are not bad, but unfortunately they aren’t very good either. They played an average set resulting in us adding them to our list of ‘sameish’ bands.

After missing their reportedly fantastic gig at Woodstock, I was really glad I got an opportunity to see THE NARROW. People seemed to appear out of nowhere and we ended up standing on a wall on the side of the stage to see anything. By ‘anything’ I really mean the occasional appearance of the bassist between people’s heads. But the most important thing was the music and I really enjoyed every bit and everyone else seemed to be under the same impression. They showed yet again the level of professionalism that comes with being one of the countries ‘bigger’ bands. They take rock to it’s full potential without compromising the vocals (they rock harder than most heavy bands without screaming). THE NARROW made up for an otherwise not particularly musically interesting evening and made yet another trip to Tempos worth it.