The Red Kites Fly High
All exceptional musicians have to re-invent themselves occasionally to keep their, and their fans, interest to a maximum! Although The Red Kites have been playing for a while now this was the first opportunity for me to see them and just how good it is to see these guys performing live.
As to be expected a couple of weekends before Xmas the town was not buzzing however the faithful turned up for the two sets the first of which featured classic covers such as “Pass Me Down The Wine” from Oasis, KT Tunstall’s “Hold On”, Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon”, Brown Eyed Girl” and, of course, the must have “Mustang Sally”.
Snow Patrols “You’re All I Have” kicked off the second set followed by the wonderful Neil Young “Rockin’ In The Free World”. Chuck Berry songs are always popular however I think this was a first time at The Kings for “Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller” which was immediately followed up by the world’s greatest blues singer, John Lee Hooker’s “I Want To Hug You”. This was seriously good stuff and made even better by the fact that Lynne now plays the harmonica, and extremely well I must say, it adds a fantastic extra dimension to any band…youngsters note!
An already superb night’s music continued with “Shake Your Money Maker” , “Hush”, The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love”, “Tulane”, a tremendous Led Zep “Rock n Roll” and for an encore, and probably another first, Billy Idol’s “White Wedding”. All excellent stuff, a night of quality track choices played with enthusiasm and professionalism, Louth should be very proud of them. They’ll be back!