The Studio in Hartlepool hosts a night of exciting, locally-rooted live music on Saturday 25th March, as Tired Of Fighting headline a triple bill. The Newcastle trio, formed in 2019, play punk music swelling with emotion and melody, a throwback sound with contemporary relevance and ongoing vitality among the international underground of followers which continues to fly its flag; a noughties emo sparkle akin to legendary, seminal acts such as Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday, rather than some of the breakthrough chart acts of the era.
A venue such as The Studio seems tailor-made for a gig of this nature, with Tired Of Fighting renowned amongst their fanbase and across the North East for their intense, visceral live act, which proves the perfect platform for the loud-quiet dynamics of their sound, shifting with craftsmanship from gurgling, aggressive soundscapes to warm, hushed textures; a certified alternative rock template every bit as effective as when Kurt Cobain lifted it wholesale from Pixies. Despite the fluctuating commercial success of the form over the eras, it wouldn’t really do, and never truly does, to employ it in a setting less than intimate.
With a string of regionally popular singles, and no less than a support slot behind Mallory Knox, the band are acclaimed and recognised for their heartfelt songwriting and the vulnerability streaking pulsatingly through their material, most obviously in the form of the raw, revelatory poetry which constitutes their lyrics.
Also lined up for the evening are Hartlepool’s own The Dead Heroines. With aesthetics taking in punk, horror tradition and riot grrrl, the group play grinding, venomous rock music with generous lashings of punky spirit and sound.
Rounding out the bill are Odin’s Revenge, also in the role of hometown heroes here. The musically accomplished band has no shortage of local experience and has thrived in competitive atmospheres, with a notable Battle of the Bands pedigree. Blending classic rock, melodic rock and metal, the group are confident in their abilities to win over any crowd, mixing the contemporary with the tried and tested.
At only £5.00, tickets are a snip to see a line-up of specifically local acts and to experience how rock scenes, even out of the spotlight both nationally and globally as they currently are, continue to thrive regardless of circumstance. With the sound they exemplify and their growing popularity and profile, headliners Tired Of Fighting are themselves paradigmatic of this tendency.
Tickets, priced at £5.00 in advance, are available from ents24.com.
