Bravestation - Supermarket Jan. 19 - Craig Stickland

It came to my attention that Bravestation were playing the Supermarket and I'd never heard of them. I had heard positive reviews though and swiftly downloaded their EP, liked what I heard and rushed off to the PWYC event. Overall it was an enjoyable set, punctuated by the little extras coming in way of synth and percussion. Adding a standalone drum to songs like Their Calling, and an electric set at other times kept things catchy and fresh (unlike the fashion sense.. faux tie dye?... jean vest?...) With the fifth song of the set, Colour of Youth they seemed to hit their stride and rode it into their final tune, EP opener, White Wolves. A short, short set was long enough to get a reaction that demanded an encore and despite having scrapped the song from the set-list earlier stating they were sick of playing it, they were cornered into doing it last anyway. Young band, small catalog. It wasn't exactly the most powerful way to go out but it did feature the tambourine and was fairly catchy. Glad to have seen this band at this point so once they fill out to an LP's worth of music (and a full set) I can see how far they've come along.

It's been a month since the show and with apologies to Craig Stickland and his backing band not a whole lot is retained from the end of the set that I caught. My phone-notes don't elaborate much either - "standard mellow indie rock" reads one line. The next is "broke out acoustic and had a break down" which if I recall is near the end of the set when Craig swapped from electric to acoustic guitar and they played a song with a strong instrumental breakdown that stood out from the rest of the show.