3/11/2010 @ 8:00

3/11/2010

Ferry
25 Anderston Quay
Glasgow, GLG G3 8BX

Featured in "Uncut" magazine, The trio of Kast Off Kinks members comprise long time KINKS members: Mick Avory (1964-1987) drums (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee 1990), Jim Rodford (1978-1996) bass/vocals (Kinks/Zombies/Argent/Animals), Ian Gibbons (1979-1989/1992-1996) keyboards (Kinks/Ian Hunter/Roger Chapman). Plus former Beach Boys and Tim Rose guitarist David Clarke. The Kast Off Kinks play a best of Kinks set which features big hits like ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’, ‘All Day and All of the Night’, ‘Lola’, ‘Waterloo Sunset’, Days’, ‘Apeman’, ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘See my Friends’, Tired of Waiting for You’. "You Really Got Me" was not only The Kinks biggest hit but marked the beginning of the heavy metal riff. As drummer Mick Avory recalls, "The band had already cut a version of "Long Tall Sally" which didn’t do anything chart wise, but with "You Really Got Me" we knew we were on to something. The fans went crazy, the phone never stopped and we leapfrogged on to TV. Our agency Arthur Howes even put an ad in the NME on August 28 1964, congratulating us on our way to the number one spot. By the time the ad was published we were already number one." 1966 was even more successful than before. In the year I joined the first three singles were "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street" They saved our international career ‘cos Dave and Ray’s onstage fighting caused crowd trouble in the US, and we were banned until 1969! The following two singles "Waterloo Sunset" and "Autumn Almanac" were in a sense very British songs and probably didn’t mean much to the Americans anyway, but they were both big hits over here, and we always thought we’d get back to the States again". The third member of the band Ian Gibbons joined in 1979 alongside Jim Rodford. touring behind the comparatively ‘recent’ hit "Lola" and enjoyed the second coming in the States when the 1975 album "Soap Opera" and the single "Everyone’s a Star" rekindled their earlier stateside success. But times had changed by the 70’s as Mick explains. "When we first went over there you couldn’t hear anything because of the screaming crowd. By the time we went back after, we played huge places, and venues provided on stage mixes, and we really hadn’t a clue what they were (laughs). Our fans listened rather than just going crazy. But that was fine as we had tons of hits to play to them and a couple of best selling albums". The three member of the Kast Off have countless Kinks hits and near misses between them, but Mick has a final message for the public. "Before you ask, we’re not a tribute band and we’re back playing the early stuff now and again, rather than 300 nights a year, and all of us love it." "Dedicated Followers of Nostalgia" (A Kast Off Kinks revue by music critic Pete Feenstra) So there we were all jammed in for a night of unapologetic nostalgia. The audience hung from the rafters, the over 50's out numbered the rest by a factor of 6 to 1, and the tables and chairs were out in force. All in all the evening resembled more of a theatre crowd than a stand up gig. And then, enter the Kast Off Kinks! and over the next 90 minutes plus, the audience clambered on top of tables and chairs to roar their heroes on. Put simply this was a monumental event. Sure the Kinks old boys, including sometime Zombies bass player, Jim Rodford, Ian Gibbons on keys/vox (who left and rejoined twice), the enduring Mick Avory on drums, plus fine vocalist/guitarist Dave Clarke (of Tim Rose fame) delivered the chestnuts on cue, but who could have expected calls for some of the more obscure Kinks catalogue? Who for that matter could have expected the incredible volume levels generated by a crowd who apparently had waited years for an evening like this? And so it was that we all returned to the 60s as if nothing had changed. And while every voice in the house sang every word to "Lola", "Well Respected Man", "Waterloo Sunset" and "Victoria", an equal number of people seemed just as happy to hear the likes of "Supersonic Rocket Ship", "Plastic Man", "Shangrila" and the poignant "Celluloid Heroes". "Lola" was introduced as "a little tune we mucked about with at Morgan Studios" and on hearing the opening couple of chords, the place exploded. Had they know the reaction they were to get the band might have thought better of asking "Anything you particularly want to hear?" For over the next hour and a half he was about to find out! Pete Feenstra • Credit Card Bookings : 01698 360085 • Online Booking at www.ticketsoup.com • Cash sales at Tickets Scotland, Argyle Street, Glasgow