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Forward Russia! (photo: Ged Camera)
Forward Russia! (photo: Ged Camera)

Forward Russia at the Music Box - 8/10

Ged Camera (gig: 30/06/05)
The Leeds based four piece provided a display of their "take no prisoners" attitude to music, setting a pace from the start that was furious and unrelenting.


Forward Russia! (photo: Ged Camera)
Forward Russia! (photo: Ged Camera)

They move along with a ‘Rage Against The Machine’ type anger mixed with a ‘Ramones’ type vitality, that grabs you by the throat that holds you there until a numbed audience try to work out if the set has finished.

Eventually they do slow things down, but the effect is akin to asking John McEnroe to tone down his language - it just doesn't happen. The frontman behaves as if he's induced an epileptic fit, swinging himself around the mic stand.

The only downside was the disappearance of a crowd after the previous band. It was their loss that they missed the best band of the night.

last updated: 06/07/05
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