Dinosaur Pile-Up – The Joiners, Southampton (From Daily Echo)

Dinosaur Pile-Up – The Joiners, Southampton

9:10am Tuesday 8th March 2011 in Music Reviews

IT SEEMS every few years a young band breaks on to the scene in a hurricane of distorted guitar riffs and heady drumbeats, and they’re soon labelled the “new Nirvana”.

Few are as deserving of it as Dinosaur Pile-Up. The Leeds band, on the final night of the Rock Sound Exposure tour with Japanese Voyeurs and the Xcerts, kicked off with masses of energy; however, the crowd seemed to only want to nod their heads at first.

The tension came to a head when bassist Harry Johns gave a rousing speech asking: “If you can’t get drunk on the last night of your tour, when can you?!” before launching into the deafening My Rock’n’Roll.

After playing crowd-pleasers such as Mona Lisa and brand-new track Should, there was no doubt we were going back in time to 1991, and that a fair few of the crowd had been there the first time around.

Whether it was a trip down memory lane or a whole new phenomenon, it was clear everyone left with hope that grunge might yet be resuscitated.

Zoe Burke