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Review - From The Jam, Pyramids Centre
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What Paul Weller didn't deliver the night before at Portsmouth's Guildhall, Bognor Regis' Russell Hastings delivered in spades at the Pyramids Centre – an hour and a half of the crashing brilliance of The Jam.
Weller is, of course, way beyond an all-Jam set with a string of cracking subsequent solo albums to his credit.
But for those who love their Jam, the Pyramids Centre was the place to be, with Russ on superb form – and yet still upstaged by the dazzling guitar wizardry of former Jam bassist Bruce Foxton.
A showman through and through, Foxton was in his element, delivering a timely reminder that The Jam were never just about Weller.
Of course Weller was more than a third of the trio, but Foxton's performance at the Pyramids Centre underlined the fact that The Jam – through Bruce – took the bass guitar to new heights.
Think Start, think Pretty Green, think Town Called Malice, think just about any Jam song, and Bruce's bass was the driving force behind it – and at the Pyramids Centre Russ did the rest. Shorn of his Weller haircut, Russell doesn't set out to be Paul Weller. He sounds like him, of course, but he remains his own man, terrific on guitar and vocals and doing more than justice to a great set of songs.
Replacing former Jam drummer Rick Buckler, who left in the autumn, was Mark Brzezicki (ex-Big Country) who was instantly into the Jam sound.
Kicking off the night were north-eastern Brit-rockers The Longsands, winning themselves plenty of new fans and friends with a tight set, a good clean sound, powerful delivery and something to really make you stop and listen.
Delivering all original material, they impressed from the start, and with a debut album on its way next year, they are clearly a band to watch out for. There are shades of The Jam in there, shades of The Who, but the end result is distinctively their own – and could be yours too. There's a free track to be downloaded on http://www.thelongsands.co.uk/free_download.htm. You won't be disappointed.
Phil Hewitt
Published Date: 10 December 2009
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