REVIEWS

DeWolff

Studio Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

Pandemic-defying album launch livestream rocks big time.

DeWolff should be on the road, but instead the core trio of Pablo and Luka van de Poel, guitar and drums, respectively, and Robin Piso on Hammond are taking their timetravelling psychedelic rock’n’roll show into fans’ homes. Everything from the stage design to the 4:3 aspect ratio is focused on evoking a TV broadcast circa 1971, and the result is fab, man.

Unsurprisingly the vast chunk of the 90-minute set is from new album , alongside and . And an array of guests fill out the stage line-up and sound to impressive effect. Top tunes including the funky Black Crowes-y , and go lusciously disco with lashings of glitterball, and a mulleted Arthur Akkermans (from touring buddies the Grand East) brings a heap of absurdly sub-Jagger strutting and bang-on blues harp to . Towards the end the band ratchet up the intensity with some absolutely ripping lead guitar during and a jousting Hammond organ and guitar duel for closer . A truly killer lockdown live set and no mistake.