Slow Readers Club

The Slow Readers Club start their latest UK tour at the Rescue Rooms, which is really a bit too small for them but Rock City is still perhaps a little too large. They're in that in between phase. This tour is to promote their latest album 'Out of A Dream'. 

First though are Pontefract's Glass Caves who have a new record of their own 'Back To Earth' to promote and promote they do. Frontman Matt Hallas asking the crowd to buy some merch so that they can upgrade their Travelodge to accommodate the four of them as they're all sharing one room. The band who started out busking on the streets of York treat us to their straightforward approach to modern rock alongside some vintage hairstyles. A long-haired throwback to the eighties but they are thoroughly nice chaps and so polite as they attempt to flog their merch for an upgrade. 

So, the Readers, and talking of vintage they have pulled a pretty vintage crowd which makes me feel so young. Quite why it’s an older crowd I’m not sure as the band aren’t that vintage.  

Across a 16-song main set they don't over push the new album playing just four from it including new single 'Animals' which is pretty decent and previous release 'Technofear' which everyone seems to know. 

There are of course plenty of oldies too including a rare outing for 'Sirens' from their first album in 2011. Although with seven albums to dip into now, and they do choose from them pretty evenly, there's a lot of classics not played. 

There's an excellent run at the end of the set with 'Afterlife', 'You Opened Up My Heart' and 'Forever in Your Debt' before new track 'Boy So Blue' and finally regular set closer 'On The TV'. 

They come back for an encore that opens with 'I Saw a Ghost', then 'Knowledge Freedom Power' before 'Lunatic' naturally finishes things off. It's a lively warming show for a cold November night.