Wow! At long last we were treated to a hot hot night… and where better to enjoy it than the Lost Horizon, Bristol, and in the company of the scorchingly statuesque tetrachordal fire-whirl KIRA MAC ?
Yes, the long-awaited bright summer evenings finally arrived in the South-West of England, and there was no better location to vent our pent-up superheats than at Bristol’s friendliest music venue with one of England’s most talented bands.
Kira Mac came charging out of the starting gates with the mule kicking Chaos Is Calling, which was a spattery wuffle of energy with incredible guitar ‘n’ bass undergrowls, super-ignitable rhythms, and a vocal that drove our hotcockles into the evening’s plasmasphere, It was an extremely enticing opening to an amazingly heated set!
the voice was multitextured, like a cloth of gold draped across a demolotion smokestack…
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Next, a frantic, knuckle-dusting energy emanated from the fermenting core of Save Your Whisky, accompanied by furious guitar and bass daggers. Vocalist Rhiannon Hill aka ‘Kira’ used these background sounds to layer the piece with the kind of jaw-dropping performance that transformed the Lost Horizon into a furnace of excitement!
Massive guitar chords and broad ambition were the standout features of the moldery, fudgy, and (let’s be honest) darkish Dead Man Walking, a song that energised the Brizzle audience with its vivacious immediacy and unrestrained chemical energy. Here, Rhiannon’s voice was multitextured, like a cloth of gold draped across a demolotion smokestack.
The brand-new song No Way Out was also performed, and we enjoyed the number’s amazing, catchy riff, upbeat tempo, and powerful vocal intensity.
After learning there are ‘No Greggs in Canada!‘ the Bristol audience was treated to a very special, informal and evocative, acoustic interlude with Rhiannon strumming guitar from a stool, before introducing another slew of booty pushing beats and growling bass-lines…
Being a song about regret, Mississippi Swinging was a potent concoction of rocky strength, fervent vehemence, and intense emotion that featured intense rhythms, powerful guitar sections, and, at the core, strikingly passionate and heartfelt vocals.
As brilliant and seductive as dragon light, Kira Mac’s vocal performance, with the band’s cohesive breadth of ambition, made for a heady concoction of non-stop thrills and a conflagration of excitement! A hot hot show!
Photo credit © Iain McCallum Photography
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