Clutch

“Now it’s getting serious – there’s a tambourine involved. This is a military grade, tactical tambourine,” deadpans frontman Neil Fallon, just asdoes particularly well, the irresistible onetwo of and ZZ Top referencing following a little later. And the inevitable newies slot in neatly among the oldies like they’ve always been there, sounding particularly tight. Never big on stagecraft, bassist Dan Maines and guitarist Tim Sult cut taciturn figures in front of their back lines – Sult occasionally stepping forward to deliver a casually incendiary wah-wah solo – while drummer Jean-Paul Gaster enters his usual cosmic fugue state from the off, leaving Fallon to prowl and growl at the front. Encoring with and