Bigfoot Fat Lil's Witney 19-10-17

After 2 energetic early supports from Black Tree Vultures and The Motive main support act Dead Man's Whiskey (who are also supporting at Camden Underworld on the 26th) hit us with a 45 minute set with 6 tracks from their recently released debut album Under The Gun.
Throw in a couple of covers in the shape of Black Stone Cherry's Me And Mary Jane and Kiss From A Rose by Seal and you had an excellent introduction to the London 5 piece.
Led by effervescent front man Nico Rogers who's throaty roar was well suited to the BSC number and with lead guitarist Billy Kons throwing shapes left right and centre and showing a very high level of shredding they are a band to watch out for and with songs as good as Live,Loud And Ready and set closer Rooster Crows a big future awaits them.

Bigfoot are touring in support of their debut cd released On Frontiers Records Srl only the previous week and after their excellent set at Hair Metal Heaven I expected big things.
The band did not disappoint with a set lasting about 70 minutes and 8 new songs in the set with a couple of their earlier ep songs added including Run,The Other Side Of Paradise(band's writing ep's shouldn't write songs this good),Blame It On The Dog and Bitch Killer.

Here is the set list.

Bigfoot play classic hard rock with a melodic edge with big choruses and twin guitar solos and a hint of a Southern Rock groove thrown into the mix too.

Anthony Ellis on vocals is a live wire front man who never stops moving and his vocals are excellent with real power but with no loss in melodic tone and is areal find for the UK rock scene.
Guitarist's Sam Millar and Mick McCullagh are equally adapt at riffing and their soloing alone or as a twin team is superb with again a melodic edge to the playing and the rhythm team of Matt Avery on bass and Tom Aspinall are the rock the band are built on.

Tell Me A Lie off the new cd is a fine opener that starts on a drum rhythm and a real kick ass heavy duty guitar riff and groove and Ellis's vocal is melodic and it builds to a superb chorus with great backing vocals too.McCullagh and Millar trade guitar solo's and a real statement of intent.

Eat Your Words has a stop start guitar riff before it all blends to a real groove monster and  builds to the chorus with Ellis's tone shining through.

Karma has a heavier edge to the guitar riff and has power in the rhythm and saw heads banging in unison and joining in on the chorus of Life's A Bitch before a searing guitar solo from Millar.

Freak Show again showcases their heavier edge with a chugging guitar riff led number that shows some class in the stop start guitar riff emphasising the heaviness as it kick's back in.

Forever Alone is the album's ballad moment and the intro with just acoustic guitar and Ellis's vocal line is stunning showcasing his range and again melodic intent.A wonderful mid song guitar solo full of picked notes then goes up a gear as you think it's about to stop and turn's into a 60 second class moment that deserves a video soon.

Uninvited has a big guitar riff at it's heart and big backing vocals before The Fear end's the set on a high with it's insistent guitar riff and pounding drums's before it drop's to just a guitar riff and vocal line and then into a great chorus with a guitar melody through out and twin soloing mid song too.

Bigfoot are one of the best new band's out there so do yourself a favour and get along to see them on this their first head lining UK tour and pick up a copy of one of the finest debut cd's you would have heard in a very long time.