Real Fur – Warming you up this Winter
While watching Real Fur’s first publicised gig on a cold winter’s Tuesday night at The Social it was clearly apparent that this band were something special. How many bands can you name whose melodies and lyrics stick in your head for weeks after one live performance? A couple of weeks later Real Fur are playing a support slot at a busy Fleur-de-Lys Club at The Lexington, stealing the show with their energetic catchy songs. Real Fur are the real deal, guitar pop perfection at its very best, combining up tempo rhythmically charged bass and drums with funk fuelled surf guitar riffs topped with 3 part harmonies. The band look natural on stage like they’ve played together for years, all the more remarkable that you can count their number of gigs on one hand. In truth though, Leo (guitar and lead vocals) and Matt (bass) have been playing together for sometime in London band ‘Cheka’, who you may or may not have heard of, but now with George on drums and a new sonic direction it is impossible not to take notice. Every one of their songs in the 30 minute set has a catchy classic pop hook, with choruses such as ‘Every Penny I spend is a Penny I Owe’, all played by the classic 3 piece line up of guitar, drums and bass.. just brilliant! One mustn’t get carried away too early as the band are still very raw and have a lot of hard work to fulfil their potential. However, from the evidence so far it won’t be long before we all want Real Fur.
Real Fur MySpace – www.myspace.com/wearrealfur
Download demo of ‘Birds’ here..
01 Birds (demo)
