Peace/Drenge gig review

Peace played the second date of their headline tour in Glasgow with support from two piece grunge band, Drenge.

When we arrived, we joined the end of the queue which stretched only a few metres from the venue door and waited around fifteen minutes until security guards carelessly ripped our tickets in half.

To start with, the crowd barely filled the venue, but everyone moved up to the barrier in preparation for Drenge coming on.

When Drenge eventually appeared on stage, their instruments roared through the room and people in the crowd immediately began to raise their hands in the air and jokingly push each other from side to side. Lead singer, Eoin Loveless snuck in a few ‘thank you’s’ after each song, but barely stopped playing tunes from their self-titled album with his brother, Rory right next to him on drums.

The crowd waited only a short time before Peace arrived on stage with their turtle necks and skinny jeans. They quickly opened with ‘Waste of Paint’ which made the crowd squash up to the barrier like sardines and begin to jump and move in waves from left to right.

By this time, the venue was full and bright yellow peace symbol shaped stage lights were shining brightly from each corner of the stage, while mysterious blue lights flooded the audience. It seemed like Peace had hardly arrived before they left again, although it had been almost an hour.

The crowd didn’t relax when they left but instead, the cluster of sweaty, beer- fuelled people began to chant ‘One more tune!’ until the band reappeared and thanked the audience for a great night.

They lifted their instruments one last time and the crowd calmed down a little to sing along with ‘California Daze’ before using one last boost of energy to sing and dance to ‘Bloodshake’.

It was a blast of a night and I will definitely be a Peace fan foreverever.

Aimee Lawson Whitehill Secondary