The Orbitsuns + Zacc Rogers, Wed 6th July, Greystones

[Dornock]

Detroit's own The Orbitsuns, purveyors of outlaw country from the depths of Motor City, are a band custom built for late night bars and booze-fuelled summer festival nights. Coming over like a bunch of rebels without a home to go to, they'll breeze into town, all attitude and energy, and give their all to blast the cobwebs off our humdrum lives.

 

The Orbitsuns have already stormed the Glastonbury Festival and are now heading to The Greystones on Wed 6th July supported by Levenshulme's legendary blues guitarist Zacc Rogers (with all six of his guitars) and his velvet singing voice.

 

Fronted by Vinnie Dombroski, all the guys in Orbitsuns have played with a host of other bands but this band seems to have been steadily gathering momentum over the last decade to make this the focus of their energies. Plenty of gigging and a value for money commitment to giving their all keeps the punters wanting more. A thunderous and energetic rhythm section from Bob Hecker and Jimmy Paluzzi underpin Vinnie's baritone honky tonk singing - he sings a lot of rock music too, but here he gives Dale Watson a run for his money - and Sir Tim Duvalier provides loads of country guitar and mandolin sounds to put the cow into this cow-punk outfit. Expect some fiddle and organ sounds in there, too.

 

You could listen to their music politely at home, but, hell, it's not made for that. Albums are just the calling card so you'll turn up and enjoy them live, let your hair down, shout yourself hoarse and dance yourself stupid. 'Die With My Boots On' and 'First Drink of the Day' both give a flavour of what this band's about - well, the titles alone do that, but the cheerfully self -mythologising outlaw perspective is right there in the music, too. For my money, though, 'Booze Hound' is the most fun, revved up rockabillythat'll induce you to shake everything you've got, whilst 'Who You Lookin Pretty For Today?' is as close as they get to more reflective, delicate music, with some nice Spanish guitar from the guitar man.

 

The Orbitsuns and The Greystones....should be a blast.