Neck Deep -Tramlines Festival
20th June 2013
For a band that’s only been
around since April 2012, pop punk quintet Neck Deep have demolished barriers
that would have crushed most bands of their age and experience – the most
recent including earning their slot at Tramlines Festival, the biggest and best
music festival in South Yorkshire that has seen the likes of Young Guns, The
xx, Rolo Tomassi and The Xcerts honour their stages over the years since its
birth in 2009.
Playing
the Skull and Bones Boys Club stage at The Corporation, Neck Deep didn’t
exactly have their work cut out for them whilst playing for only half an hour
in such a small and intimate venue, but nevertheless the band graced the stage
with a meek humbleness that masked the reality of the vivacious and powerful
performance that they had in store. Kicking off the set with ‘Up In Smoke,’ the
robust and fiery debut track from their latest EP ‘A History of Bad Decisions,’
their audience wasted no time in involving themselves with the antics of singer
Ben Barlow who bounded around the stage in a fit of energetic arousals and trademark shouty vocals.
Neck
Deep upheld their powerful and vigorous presence on the stage throughout and
cleverly combined popular singles such as ‘Over and Over’ and ‘What Did You
Expect?’ that are saturated in typical pop punk angst with shorter, angrier
songs such as ‘Kick It’ and ‘All Hype No Heart’ that suited the preference of
every fan in the audience and obtained an alarming response for such a
little-known band. Even during minor technical difficulties the band continued
to entertain and every member of the crowd engaged in the not-so-pop-punk
customary mosh pit founded by the demands of Barlow.
Regardless of the fact that
thirty minutes is hardly enough for Neck Deep to truly portray their
undoubtable talent, the boys from Wrexham certainly put on a show worthy of a
headlining act and the world can only wait and see what the band have in store
for us after the release of their forthcoming debut album, ‘Wishful Thinking’.
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