Smashing review of Tragedy from Soundshock..."Tragedy rock Bloodstock and wear us like a lubricated glitter glove and we guiltily love every minute of it." And so it’s down to the glitzy disco-kissed headliners. Primarily a heavy metal tribute act to The Bee Gees, Tragedy are an interesting choice to finish the first night, but the packed out Sophie tent spilling out into the clutches of the amusement rides speaks for itself, as does the colony of heads nodding in unison to metal renditions of ‘Stayin’ Alive’, ‘How Deep Is Your Love’, ‘Jive Talking’ and the titular ‘Tragedy’. The crowd really erupts when frontman, Barry Glibb, says he’s going to transport us back to 1977 with a song from a little known film starring a famous scientologist that was originally titled ‘Lube’. With so much glitter, jiving and crotch thrusts on stage it’s like a more flamboyant version of The Darkness with just as much bite and full control of the attentive crowd. There’s even a Tragedy mascot clad in a clown costume who Glibb calls on to crowd surf throughout some of the songs. But the fun doesn’t just stop with The Bee Gees covers (or the clown). See, Tragedy decide to tease the crowd with the start of Slayer’s seminal classic ‘Raining Blood’ only to veer into a heavy metal rendition of ‘Raining Men’. This isn’t the only nod towards heavy metal contemporaries, nor is it the only non-Bee Gees song. Tragedy become “Black Abbath” and treat us to ‘Gimme, Gimme, Gimme’ ending with the opening notes of ‘Iron Man’. Similarly Barry Glibb declares the Tragedy gig is over, but lucky for us they are now the official Donna Summer tribute band and with that they blast into ‘Hot Stuff’. Tragedy rock Bloodstock and wear us like a lubricated glitter glove and we guiltily love every minute of it.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:58:35 +0000
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