The Clockworks - Live at Rough Trade, Bristol - 14th October

Armed with an album’s worth of songs in the public domain (if not an actual album itself), The Clockworks are quietly but assuredly gathering an undeniable momentum.

It helps that the songs are good, of course. Better still that they actually have Something To Say and that singer and songwriter James McGregor can rhapsodise his thoughts on 21st century society with a watertight band backing his every line with whipcrack solidity.

Fittingly, the first song opens with the line, ‘And that’s another thing…’, as the foursome fly out of the traps with Endgame, all fizzing hi-hat and crisp guitar.

‘We’re post-punk, post-truth, post-Europe, post-youth, post-modern, post-faith and God and post-post too, as music with nothing to say plays on the radio’, McGregor opines, making an immediate grab for the crowd’s attention.

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