Deez Nuts + Stick To Your Guns @ ULU London 6/5/15

Support: Trash Talk + Being As An Ocean 

After making a short appearance at Manchester’s Impericon fest, Being As An Ocean opens the one off show at London’s ULU Student Union. Attracting a large percentage of the audience, bodies start to sway with immediate reaction. Springing around the stage, vocalist Joel Quartuccio slowly makes his way to the floor. Reunited with his friends, Quartuccio wastes no time in welcoming new people, he gets right up into their faces, passing the mic around this shared circle.  Debuting a new song that had previously gone down well, the proud band live up to their hyped up expectations as London enjoy ‘Little Richie’ just as much.

Trash Talk soon then appear on stage with such confidence and authority, as if they were headlining the show.  “Turn these lights off right now,” vocalist Lee Spielman demands as the student union is now consumed in darkness. It’s never a Trash Talk show until Speilman gets right into the crowd and starts to cause havoc, which is exactly what happens next. Stealing all energy from the teen filled crowd, the bands heavy influence get rallies of pits forming and running about in full circles. Their traditional hardcore edge floats well with London’s crowd, as groovy riffs are blasted, bodies move in time to each beat.

Up next to co-headline this monstrous show, Stick To Your Guns appear with their rebellious expressions plastered across their faces. ‘Nobody’ is the first track that immediately opens up a racketing crowd. Playing live, the deep bass line is amplified to the max, sending vibrations throughout your body. The band move their way through tracks off their latest record Disobedient, to, treasured songs found in Diamond, such as ‘Against Them All’ and ‘We Still Believe’.  Occasionally Jesse Barnett would make a short speech, right on queue about the corrupt world we live in, and his hate filled political debates to the crowd as they roared with agreement.

Being away from the UK for such a long period of time seemed to have made an impact on the bands sound. Being positively greater than the Never Say Die tour. Barnett’s tells a story about his best friend being a dog, and listening to his problems. Are we at a pop punk show? Evidently the band have come to grips with their stern sound, that live gets their serious message across, as bodies dive off the abnormally high stage.

As Deez Nuts appear, the venue, which was not sold out in the first placed seemed even, bore empty. I guess the trains were finishing early that night? It was clear that the band had not attracted most of the audience to this show, but the support acts had managed to pull such a large collection of fans.

Nevertheless the front of the stage was lined with faces that pointed towards the band, and spat each lyric aggressively.  They play ‘Like There’s No Tomorrow’ and the crowd picks up slightly.  For the rest of their set things didn’t seem to be going as great as the night had been. I guess three amazing support acts are hard to live up to, as keeping the crowd off their phones was another task. After all the show is on a Wednesday night. Deez Nuts still play with such enthusiasm and authority, as bounces of hair flicks contain the view throughout their set.

9/10