REVIEW: TEIGNMOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012
The increasingly popular Teignmouth Music Festival took place on Saturday 28th July as the closing highlight to the week’s carnival events. The Den saw musical performances earlier in the week from Teignmouth bands such as the popular N.W.O., These Reigning Days, led by Dan Steer previously of The Quails, and A=Muse, a tribute act to Teignmouth’s slightly better known rock band Muse.
Saturday’s events kicked off with some laid back music from The Ronnie Jones Quartet and Conmoto. Young band Hysteria from Kingskerswell, which is made up of a group of nine to eleven year olds, rocked up the early afternoon slot with a few of their own tracks as well as Thin Lizzy and Bon Jovi covers. The afternoon saw two acoustic sets from Kelsey Conroy and Pete Chadwick, who playing either side of folk punk band Eat the Rich. Patch ID, a two man DJ set mixed together both old and new tracks that got all ages in the crowd moving. The Unoriginals were next up and as their name indicates this band had a set full of covers which ranged from Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ to Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’.
Not Your Destiny, a group of four local lads, played a few rock songs to warm up the ever growing crowd before Electric River who made the ‘seven hour road trip in a van’ from their Kent base. This four piece rock band entertained by playing their own tracks such as ‘Tombstone Jones’ alongside covers such as Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and The Killers’ ‘Mr Brightside’ in their own inimitable style.
Headliners, local band Rude Tiger, brought an element of the Olympics to their set, when during ‘I Just Wanna Find’ (a new track already proving to be a crowd pleaser) they released numerous beach balls for the crowd to partake in a game of beach volleyball. Thrown into their set of original rock numbers was Jas Morris’ beautiful acoustic solo ‘No Stone Left Unturned’ and his brother, bass player Dan Morris, took prominence and literally revved up for their much heavier number ‘Hell Riff’. Reminiscent of Springsteen’s and Macca’s recent infamous curfew imposition in Hyde Park, at 11.30pm the rocking set came to a dramatic and abrupt end during D Collings’ drum solo also denying the band to play their Amazon rock chart and Q magazine rated single ‘Desolate.’
Words and photo: Meg Hope
