Chris Grieve (trombone & electronics), Graeme
Stephen (guitar & loops) & David Carnegie (drums)
(Review by Russell/Photos courtesy of Mike Tilley).
This was fun. A legendary rock band repackaged as a ‘jazz trio’. Led Zeppelin tapped into the National Grid to generate a trillion watts through Marshall stacks, Soundbone created a big sound of their own filtering trombone and guitar through a box of tricks. Newcastle City Hall veterans were largely absent from the Jazz Café, oblivious to the goings on in the upstairs room, perhaps sitting at home with a curry listening to Black Dog, bemoaning the fact that things ain’t what they used to be.
This was fun. A legendary rock band repackaged as a ‘jazz trio’. Led Zeppelin tapped into the National Grid to generate a trillion watts through Marshall stacks, Soundbone created a big sound of their own filtering trombone and guitar through a box of tricks. Newcastle City Hall veterans were largely absent from the Jazz Café, oblivious to the goings on in the upstairs room, perhaps sitting at home with a curry listening to Black Dog, bemoaning the fact that things ain’t what they used to be.
Black Dog opened the show – you could have been
here! – and the trio pulled it off! A seated Graeme Stephen carved out the
Jimmy Page riff, Chris Grieve’s clip-mic ‘bone pulsatingly melodic, drummer
David Carnegie dead-on, sub-Bonham sledgehammer.
Stephen and Grieve, two thirds NeWt (the band, not
p***** as), recently joined forces with Barbadian, ex-Tyneside resident, David
Carnegie to play the Zeppelin ‘songbook’ and it really does work. Moby Dick featured DC’s explosive
drumming, Misty Mountain Hop surfaced
from a looping swirl of sound and Communication
Breakdown lacked one thing, and one thing only, Robert Plant’s inimitable
rock god vocals.
Immigrant Song, the folkie Going to California, the charts-reading Soundbone trio had what we
already knew – immense chops. The affable Grieve suggested singing along to the
tunes was in order – the chances were the audience had beaten him to it. To
close a thoroughly entertaining evening Soundbone stretched out on Kashmir; Graeme Stephen developed a
brilliant solo, Grieve sang into his now detached mic and Carnegie drove a
tight trio to the final stop chord.
Russell.
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