The Truth were Dennis Greaves' band after Nine Below Zero split. I had seen Nine Below Zero a couple of times and enjoyed them very much, and I was pleased to discover that The Truth were worthy successors. However, apart from the fact that the personnel were different, the differences between the two bands were minimal. Doubtless this was a factor in Greaves later re-forming his former band.
Despite the fact that The Kinks were playing to a shockingly quarter empty De Montfort Hall, the sparseness of the crowd did not detract from the atmosphere. There were lots of young mods in the audience, who swarmed to the front to pogo wildly during "David Watts", and then returned to the back to stand around sulkily in their parkas and striped blazers.
The Kinks played quite a bit from their then current album "State Of Confusion", but they by no means neglected their back catalogue; "You Really Got Me", "All day And All Of The Night", "Waterloo Sunset" and "Lola" particularly standing out. However, for me the encore was a highlight: the played "I Gotta Move" which was the b-side of "All Day And All Of The Night", a childhood favourite of mine.
The band played with a great degree of tautness and energy and deserved a far bigger and more enthusiastic audience. Rumours abound that they are going to return in some shape or form, if only the Davies brothers can bring themselves to speak to each other.....
I was there. One of those young Mods
ReplyDeleteWere you much of a Kinks fan prior to the gig? How about afterwards?
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