James O'Malley: Event Log

Rebel Alliance Tour: Chris Murray, Random Hand, Mouthwash

On February 5th, I took a trip to Kettering to see that leg of the Rebel Alliance Records tour featuring three of my favourite bands. It was a rotating headline thing, and on this particular night it was opened by Mouthwash (who I was largely unfamiliar with before), who turned out to be awesome to the point where I bought their CD, followed by Chris Murray (who should have headlined, I reckon), and then Random Hand.

It was really good. I can’t really be more descriptive than that as I’m writing more than a month after the event, and all I can really remember aside from the bitchin’ tunes that night was being charged £1.50 for a glass of Coke poured from a large supermarket bottle of Coke…