Sounds From The Junkshop #38 - The Hybirds
"I wanna drink to the children of tomorrow! I wanna raise my glass up high!" - The Hybirds - "Born Yesterday" So this story starts some time towards the end of 1997 - your correspondent, now living in Stoke-on-Trent as a student, has been badgered into going to see Cast with some mates (I think it was at the Sugarmill). Although I'd liked the first Cast album, I'd heard the second when it came out a few weeks before and hadn't been convinced - it really felt like they were treading water and had used up all their good ideas on the album before ( Be Here Now syndrome if you will). "Ah well," thinks I, "hopefully they'll chuck a bunch of stuff from the first album in the set - if so it should be okay." We end up getting to the venue early and seeing the support band - a bunch of up-and-coming lads from Nottingham called the Hybirds. Who promptly absolutely blast us away. Yes, it's very much the standard Noelrock template bu...