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DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024
Cal Francis is the androgynous front man of DITZ, and for the last five years or so he and his band have been carving their name into the grain of the Brighton music scene and gradually working on breaking out to wider attention.
Whether Butlins at Bognor was on their original bucket list is doubtful though… and there’s a palpable tension between Cal and the venue stage crew right from the word go.
Cal has been told he can’t have a beer on stage… and this does not make him happy.
He’s also displeased by the lack of volume throughout the set… something he raises several times with the sound engineer… but to no avail.
But he is given radio mic (which he tries to eat/deep throat at the end of the set)… and that does seem to cheer him up as it allows him to stage dive and prowl the room at leisure.
His mic stand is, however, confiscated within the first five minutes of the set, and he has to studiously ignore the stage hand who insists he has to get down from the lighting rig.
The set is a genuine triumph though, and is a much more mature (if punkishly petulant) performance than the last time I saw the band in some Brighton sweatbox or other.
It’s a slightly scratch-band however, featuring Lily from Lambrini Girls on bass … because their regular rhythm player got confused by the American six hour time difference and so was still on a flight across the Atlantic that he’d thought got in earlier in the day. But Lily does a sterling job… and proves she’s got the chops to hold her own with the best of them.
DITZ do a great job of reviving the original anarchic spirit of punk, but pull it kicking and screaming into 2024 with a fresh sound all of their own.
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