THE OK SOCIAL CLUB
Nothing In Common
Platform Records
Indie punk, eh? Well, if that’s what the kids want, then that’s what the kids will get. Of course, the charts are notorious for their absence of indie punk, what with it being so 2001, but for the hardened band of indie punks kids out there who’re too young to remember The Stokes, here come The OK Social Club.
The band have been featured on Soccer AM, Radio One, XFM, MTV ROCKS, Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, E4 and Hollyoaks. ‘The Shape Of Things To Come’ was BBC Radio Scotland’s Janice Forsyth show ‘Single Of The Month‘ and Steve Lamacq’s Rebel Playlist Winner on BBC 6 Music, it was also playlisted in TOPSHOP stores worldwide, and they’ve scooped the highly coveted ‘Best Live Act’ at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards, which took place last Friday March 8th.
They do have one definite floor filler in the shape of ‘The Shape of Things To Come’, and it’s miles ahead of the other tunes, so they should get some work off the back of that because, frankly, one good tune is all you need nowadays, in order to parlay a few years worth of festival appearances (hallo The View). They comprise a competent enough set of musicians in Chris Finn on guitar and vocals, Gordy Burn on bass, and lead guitarist Raff Eragona, and have the common courtesy to keep most of their tunes to the three minute mark, something I wish that an awful lot of other bands would do. If you can’t say what you need to in 3 minutes, then you should consider another line of worl, or join a prog band.
Other pass marks go to the previously released single, ‘Gezellig’ and ”Twisted Young Gentlemen’, with the latter going pure indie, indicating that they may be looking to a Manic Street Preachers type future instead of the aforementioned Strokes one. As befits a Scotch band they have an awful lot of songs about drink, drinking, being drunk, and being hungover, but they’re young, and that’s what the kids do nowadays. They’ll get over it. Some of the songs seem a little unfinished, but that might be deliberate. After all, I did say they were an indie punk band, so I shouldn’t go looking for a high gloss finish.
It does what it does, and for the folks who like their doing to be done like this, then this will do it.
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