Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Time was a lost weekend was one filled with unaccountable angst, a shame dictated by a society used to frowning at anything that suggested a raucous behaviour that ended up in temporary amnesia of the events that might be considered anti-social, objectionable, rebelliously lawless; now time is such that the lost weekend is to be lauded, for exactly the same reasons, for the further we are treated so abominably, by the constant pressure to be treated worse than the underclass of Victorian society, the more we which to rebel and have One Hell Of A Time whilst we still can.
The thing with Hell is we need a great soundtrack in which to appreciate its charms, to party with the best we have to groove to the finest, and in The Lost Weekend Band that dialogue of sound effect and answering in the affirmative is endorsed with a sense of pride and utter cool.
As Hardcore Dave, Parker Richey, Eliot Lorango, Joey Ponchetti, and Carl Byron come to Hell’s number one stage they give a performance that showcases the great and the good of the genre in such a way that the Devil himself can be found tapping his hoof and cheering from the main bar at the sound of Country Rock mixes the crowd into a frenzy and the vision of angels and broken hearted cherubs inspires the soundtrack onwards.
The five strong song E.P. sees Pay The Rent, Sunlight, Sing With Me, Madison County, and In The Morning all touch upon the modern sense of malaise bite with the twist of the heavy wild roughness that the devil and the details can agree on as they turn up the heart and edge the cool with equal precision.
To play fast and loose is to embrace the epic, Hell after all does not play the insipid or the low-cut cost drama to which true mastery avoids, instead the Hell of time promised is delivered with intensity, a range of the holy poignant and the notes of the imbibed with fury; each member pounding as though the imps of Hell hold no fear.
A tremendously delicious E.P., The Lost Weekend Band play eight days a week and for all time with passion and glory in their stride.
The Lost Weekend Band release One Hell Of A Time on June 14th.
Ian D. Hall