Let’s get loud: Violent Soho’s No Sleep Til Mansfield Tour

Posted on 11 December, 2014

I love watching live music especially Australian live music and it is even better to see a band that sounds exactly like their records.

Flocking from the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield (hence the name of the tour), the four-piece band Violent Soho did not disappoint me (and the packed crowed) last week at the ANU Bar.

The band’s third and last studio album, Hungry Ghost, has just been certified “Gold” after 30,000 units of the album were sold in Australia. What better way to celebrate then to hold a two-month long ‘No Sleep Til Mansfield’ national Australian tour?

From the familiar opening chords of Dope Calypso, the audience was a heaving, throbbing, sweaty bouncy mess. Violent Soho delivered harmonies, vocal tricks and an eclectic array of blood pumping arrangements.

Off course Covered in Chrome remains the subject of high audience participation. Between lead singer Boerdam’s screams of “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” answered with a loud and clear “Hell F@#ck Yeah!” it was a beautifully orchestrated audience participation met with a sea of flying arms (and legs) from a jumping crowd.

The stage was full of all the Violent Soho grunge that fans have become use to with long hair in windmill motion throwing, fake guitar bashing, and “hard” but well behaved mosh pits. The ‘No Sleep Til Mansfield Tour’ will be the last chance to see Violent Soho perform in Australia and it promises to leave punters eagerly waiting for a fourth album.