Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Listening to The Theme’s Hits The Sky, the feeling of infectious delight washes over you to the point where you have to start looking through the yellow pages or asking your G.P. where the nearest place is to share the sheer joy of listening to one of the most remarkable bands to come out of the London area in many years.

Industrious and tremendous live, The Theme certainly more than packs a punch in the studio also. The Theme not only know how to write a good track, an abundance of them if truth be known, but they deliver them with a style that allows the brain to go into the fog of reminisce and blow the cobwebs away. In much the same way The Kinks, The Jam and The Who were able to blow the minds of their fans in the Mod heyday and the last great silver age that followed when Bruce Foxton licked his lips at the thought of creating a riff so damning it would have questions asked of it in parliament. The Theme give that extra verve that suggests that the genre may have only been sleeping after all; that the fashion is one that can be roused and maintained if the music is allowed to be honest and forthright.

The songs, Hits The Sky, Two Sides To The Story, Fallen Hero, Twisted Little Soul and Everything’s Fine showcase the Mod extreme but also give that definition a tweak, the subtly of delivery very much sitting in the fast lane and staring down the headlights of on-coming traffic, there is only one way in this world it can finish and it is with The Theme reigning hard and fast on those too silly to realise they are in the wrong lane.

Musically cool, lyrically inspired, The Theme are such a hot topic of conversation that they matter, they own the page of current post-modern Mod. A sheer joy!

Ian D. Hall