Thursday, 20 January 2011

108 THE CHESTERFIELDS, Beat Hotel, Bristol Topic Club, Saturday 1 October 1988



Absolutely knackered after a day in London watching Swindon Town FC beat Watford, with my Boston student friend Sue, so I really didn't need a late late show at the Tropic. Hey ho...

Bopped down in more than good time to catch former Chesterfields roadie Jason lead his band Beat Hotel through an impressive storm of hard-rocking pop tunes, with surprisingly excellent melodies in the process. Worth seeing again! The Chesterfields played a late headliner set based largely on new LP, the more "mature" direction of "Crocodile Tears", also sporting a female violinist during their nevertheless fun and boppy set of jangly ramshackle pop. Met the boys again afterwards for a lengthy chat before calling it a night - a late one at that...

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