THURSDAY BEACH STAGE
There’s a very good reason we put HotWax on our ‘must see’ TGE23 list…and also why we have been championing them as a band to watch for the last year or so. Quite simple they ooze with all the elements that make a great live band…not least that they have a great catalogue of songs already under their belts, so, unlike many new young acts, they can play a 45 minute set with a tonne of killer and very little filler. Today on the TGE beach stage they only had a mere 30 minutes to impress the packed-out tent, but that wasn’t hard to do, because being the force of nature they are it’s always just a matter of minutes before they have any crowd eating out of the palms of their hands. We love the fact that this isn’t just a raw, shouty, pop-punk trio. This is a shouty pop-punk trio with genuine musical talent that holds their music together in a far more refined way than you might at first realise.
We have a feeling that as time goes by their sound will diversify and we are looking forward to that really difficult fifth album where they turn a corner and bring us something challenging an unexpected.
