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Ringo Deathstarr took the evening off from supporting The Smashing Pumpkins (QRO live review) on their European tour to play their own headline gig at Bristol's Start the Bus on Wednesday, November 9th.  The previous night they had played Paris and following tonight, they were due to play Manchester.  It had been some twelve months since Ringo Deathstarr had last played Bristol (QRO review), supporting The Wedding Present, and since then the band had released their début album, Colour Trip (QRO review), which had met with very positive reviews.

Start The Bus is a small music venue bar that doubles up as a café in heart of Bristol.  The Texan three-piece sat relaxing at one of the tables finishing off their meal, getting stuck into the Jack Daniels and red wine.

It was 11.30pm by the time the two support acts had finished and Ringo Deathstarr took to the small stage with the floor in front of it packed.  It was "You Don't Listen" from the début Colour Trip that started the evening, with Daniel Coborn pounding away on his drums, tucked away in the far corner.  From the start the audience were into the proceedings dancing and leaping around throughout the gig to make this a memorable evening. 

There was a break in pace as the elegant bass guitarist Alex Gehring took the vocals for "Summertime", a myriad of bright swirling colours - not that there were any bright lights on the stage after guitarist and lead singer Elliott Frazier had asked for all the lights surrounding the stage to be dimmed.

There were further tracks from Colour Trip, before the psychedelic barrage of swirling sound released upon the crowd two tracks from their new EP.  "Shadow" saw Gehring sharing vocal responsibilities with Frazier, with the latter stretching his voice to scream with frenzy his parts, whilst in contrast Gehrings tones brought calm.  "Prisms" saw the band enter different territory with a totally blissed out and ambient sound.

The band finished their thirteen-song set with older familiar numbers, before finishing with "Sweet Girl", which led to its huge rising finalie resulting in Frazier rolling around on the stage.  The DJ went to to start his first disc to herald the end of the gig, but the audiance were not having it and the DJ was forced to pause the track.  Ringo Deathstarr remained on stage but were joined on stage by one of the audiance who claimed he could play drums.  Sure enough a very worn out and hot looking Coborn gave the plucky member of the audiance the sticks.  After a false start and a bit of guidance the boy did alright, as Ringo Deathstarr broke even newer ground by playing what can only be described as an almost death metal number with Alex and Elliott taking it in turns to scream into the mics and ensure we all went home with impaired ability to hear!

Ringo Deathstarr certainly conqured with one particular punter expressing how disgusted they were with themselves for not hearing of the band previously and proclaiming it as the best gig he had seen.

Set list

You Don't Listen

Sweet Girl