We Were Promised Jetpacks, Edinburgh Liquid Rooms, 6th October 2011 .

Wow – Two days have now passed since this gig and my ears have not long since stopped ringing! It may have been a cold wet night in Edinburgh but half of Corstorphine ensured that a sold out Liquid Rooms was turned into a sweatbox for local boys We Were Promised Jetpacks and the band repaid them by turning everything up to eleven.

Two dates into their tour and with new album In The Pit Of The Stomach only a few days old, the band were clearly up for it as they produced a wall of sound that relentlessly pounded anyone who had any doubts about them into submission.

With their latest offering arguably their strongest to date, WWPJ played new songs like their explosive opener “Circles and Squares” and single “Medicine” with the pride and joy of a child showing off his new toys at Christmas. Although it was the more familiar songs such as “Quiet Little Voices” which saw the crowd at their most frantic, new songs sat beside old songs well in a set that proved that the band now posses an impressive catalogue of songs, which should see them expand their fanbase and finally fulfil the promise they showed back in 2009. Songs like the anthemic new album highlight “Pear Tree” suggest that the band are ready to step out of the shadows and give their peers a run for their money. Buy the record, see the tour and hop on for the ride before this band hit the big time and leave you behind.

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Many thanks to Laurent Gauffre, the other half of 17 Seconds Records, for his review of this gig

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