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DON BROCO / MASSMATIKS – PRIORITIES X AUTOMATIC – BIRMINGHAM O2 INSTITUTE, 31.07.16 & 01.08.16
A number of bands have been performing albums in full recently, but ‘Blank Wall’ is an opinionated song about when everyone is a critic, saying
a tour we were eager for was DON BROCO’s Priorities X Automatic tour “everyone who thinks they know everything when really they know nothing
where the first night in each city they’d play their debut album, ‘Priorities’, at all”, while ‘4AM’ is a more mellow song about a crazy ex-girlfriend. He
in full, and then the second night they’d play their latest release, ‘Auto- sings ‘gotta stop picking up these drunk calls’. The tough resistance and
matic’, in full. confrontational air that sweeps through their sound will no doubt help bring
With only one support band in the form of Londoners MassMatiks, it the band into the public eye.
makes for a relatively short evening. MassMatiks take to the stage at 8pm Hearing DON BROCO play their two albums on alternate nights brings
each night, their in-your-face brashness being something you have to ac- the albums’ differences to the fore. ‘Priorities’ is very real and live and it’s
climatize yourself to. George Peploe on vocals comes across as a hard refreshing to hear a band with almost no backing tracks as they just play
lad, someone you probably wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of, al- their instruments and what you hear is what you get. In contrast, new
most spitting out spoken words in songs such as ‘Gunning For You’ and song, ‘Everybody’, which the band play in the encore and which is a pump-
‘Bad Luck’. He sings about social situations as well as personal ones. ing, pulsating eargasm, and second album, ‘Automatic’, have more re-

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