This live E.P, recorded in Hamburg captures, the sweat-soaked button-down shirts, anger, passion and the fire that burns from a red bull fuelled beating heart. Opener ‘The New Age’ pummels the speakers with a punchy, shoulders out football terrace stance. The band’s bold influences may be from the late seventies but fuck me those really were the best years for vital, genre-defining sounds and The Spitfires aren’t just rehashing it they’re absolutely owning it. Next up is the incessant celebratory jabbing of ‘Tell Me’ before ‘Year Zero’ cuts through the stage smoke with a stiff little, Johnny Was Reggae strut down through the decades. ‘Stand Down’ gets its fish hooks into the loafer protected feet while the set closer ‘On My Mind’ is top shelf chucking out time poetry wrapped in late night heartbreak, confusion and glorious sounding sorrow.
THE SPITFIRES
Live E.P
8.5/10