![]() ![]() At the back of the stage his brother Gareth provides a steady drumbeat to which bassist Darren King overlays a booming set of bass lines. ![]() Andrew Hunt’s vocals are crisp, clear and soulful enough to be perfectly matched to this particular style of blues. This is a band playing a most infectious upbeat kind of blues driven rock music and who clearly enjoy every minute of their time on stage. On their Belfast debut the four-piece delivered a quick succession of tracks from their self-titled album, including ‘Truth From Fable’, ‘Rolls on Through’ and the excellent ‘A Horse Called Freedom’. ![]() This coupled with the fact that a week or two later it was announced that thrash giants Slayer were also playing a small club gig just across town on the same night, this almost felt like a gig that was just not meant to happen.īut it did happen, and what an excellent night of song and musicianship it turned out to be.Īs the Welsh support act Buffalo Summer made their way onto the small stage it looked as if the audience was going to be far from capacity, but as the sound of the blues fuelled rock guitar opener ‘She’s All Natural’ filtered to the bar downstairs the audience numbers began to swell slowly but surely. When Walking Papers were first announced for Voodoo Belfast it seemed like the listing had been an error, given the personnel in the band and the relatively small size of the venue. ![]()
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