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Smoked Glass

Tonight Cabaret Voltaire is sold out, it has been for weeks. This is largely down to the evening’s headliners Smoked Glass and their impressive following.

Ostensibly Smoked Glass could be any young band on the make. They’ve got very obvious influences, they look great and they have a pretty good idea of how to please their audience. What sets them apart is the fact that, in pint sized John Keenan, they have a genuinely blistering singer with a voice that already looks like its going to be more at home in a stadium than an underground venue off the Royal Mile.

Strutting onto stage the five piece are greeted with the kind of welcome more established artists would be ecstatic to garner. This evening is a real chance for Smoked Glass to prove that all the recent internet and national press hype isn’t misplaced. Self indulgent they might be, with their pitch-perfect Pink Floyd instrumentals, but you can forgive them for it because when they hit the right notes - the crowd, crushing to get close to them, are delirious.

Rarely do you see a group so young with such command of a crowd, but then even more infrequently do you hear a band as competent with their instruments and a vocalist with a voice so potent.

Even if you’re more into REM than Reef you’d be hard pushed to find fault in their brand of rock. Hats off to them, they really do sound like a group with the substance to go some distance.

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