LIVE REVIEWS
Those Damn Crows
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
Definitely a performance to crow about.
★ With two successful albums, an ever-growing fanbase and hit appearances at Download, Ramblin’ Man and Steelhouse, Bridgend’s Those Damn Crows are one of the hotter properties on the modern UK scene. This balmy Bank Holiday Sunday night, they’ll perform for a home crowd in the fairy tale setting of Cardiff Castle. For any Welsh band, to play within these walls is symbolic, a trophy of arrival.
Main support comes from the rising Cardinal Black, and you’d never know it’s their debut gig. Their winning brand of polished, soul-flecked rock is studded with guitarist Chris Buck’s salvos of six-string magic, and perfectly suits the nicely soused festival vibe as the sun sets behind the castle itself.
With the 1,800-strong crowd duly warmed, the Crows deliver a rapturously, , (from Top 20 LP ). Drummer Ronnie Huxford’s the engine, assuredly driving and , while Shane Greenhall remains an animated, enthralling frontman with lung power. He sells it all – ballad , singalong set closer – to an audience joyfully buying every moment. These Crows are truly taking wing.
