On Monday 12th May this year I went to see American Noisniks Ghost Woman, kicking up a fuss at Bobik's in Jesmond near where I live. It was a tense and stormy day in my own life for reasons I won't bother you with, except to say that I'd just had a bad argument with someone who means a lot to me.
Ghost Woman calmed the fire in my belly although their music is driven music. It was an intense, noisy evening at the lip of a low stage, watching a couple of possessed, driven musicians summoning up a storm.
Ghost Woman look like White Stripes but they play most of all like Gun Club. Their tattoed pony tailed drummer wore a Gun Club T Shirt that night. Like Jeffrey Lee and his gang of outlaws they plug into the Wild Old West. The Delta Blues.
They're a prolific band . Labandtest record Hindsight is 50 / 50 is their third album in 18 months. Time is clearly of the essence. It's another urgent, conflicted missile.
This records sounds more like Ghost Woman are as a live proposition than previous reords. Hindsight is 50 / 50 is a gnarly, uncompromising beast. Knotty. Coiled. Dangerous. A band on a roll.
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