Pistol don’t fire

REVIEW - CRYSTAL PISTOL
The Garage - by MARK BLUNDEN

IMPENETRABLE overdriven sludge with a bloated Robert Smith lookalike wailing over the top – welcome to a gig with Canada’s next world-beating rock band.
Crystal Pistol, mostly a ghastly post-industrial mess of a band, sucked.
Three songs in and this reviewer was ready to collect his cropped white spandex jacket from the cloakroom and take his chances on Holloway Road.
Only Rock Star and Live Fast provided any respite with Pistol channelling their energy into two tight numbers with sexy riffs and a whiff of The Almighty’s only chart-friendly single, Free ’n’ Easy.
In fairness, the Garage gig was the last night of their UK tour – one that started in Hull, and god knows what that does to the creative juices.
Support bands Lethal Fixx and the Red Star Rebels knocked Crystal Pistol into a cocked hat – they had more swagger and better tunes.
While Lethal Fixx flogged the retro Motley Crue thing, the Rebels hacked out their own furrow, evoking the sleaziest side of the 1980s Sunset Strip with a dash of early Guns ’n’ Roses.

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