Sea Fever @ Bask, Stockport 21.03.24
New Order fans will know Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham as the band’s bass player and guitarist but this sold-out gig was a showcase for their other band. Drummer Elliot Barlow kept up a ferocious motorik dance beat throughout the thirteen song set with Tom and Beth Cassidy both generating insistent keyboard-based melodies. Beth took over on lead vocals from Iwan Gronow on Thrills and Le Coup but the best reaction of the night came when Iwan put down his rhythm guitar and upped the intensity for recent single De Facto. With a second LP ready to go, Sea Fever are highly contagious.
This review was written for Record Collector magazine
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