Milloy / Spy Versus Spy / Dartz! / Fun! Yeah!

For The Love Of The Game, Wakefield’s most fun night out, is back at the Jockey with a premium slice of music. There’s time for the charity raffle later, with wonderful prizes like booze and Cliff Richard records, but first it’s time for some bands.

The first band to over do the exclamation marks is Norwich’s Fun! Yeah! The power pop quartet do not really utilise their vocals as the melody, the keyboard does that. Drummer Carl and bassist Mike take turns at screaming into the microphone, and the stopping and starting rhythm provides a staple beat. And it’s all good fun, yeah.

Dartz!, with only the one act of punctuation, are more melodic and add a little bit of punk into their steady and danceable beats. The crowd in here want to see and are crammed into the small band room, but are not allowing the infectious rhythms to let them move.



The trio have played in The Jockey a few times, but in the not so distant future they will be too big for pub gigs, so tonight could be looked at as a farewell to Wakey. They dedicate a song to Milloy’s singer Jim, who has ferried them around on a previous tour. It’s damn catchy melodic pop punk from three friendly chaps.

Spy Versus Spy, the name coming from a comic strip featuring two competing bird-like Dick Tracey characters, have a little bit of old school Biffy Clyro about them, what with the bursts of tune and duel vocals. Touring after a seven year hiatus, the UK post hardcore band have a similar sound to Hot Water Music, not emo but the vocals do have a lot of forceful angst in them, surrounded by minor chords.



Again the crowd are not moving about a lot, though the space is limited. The only cost tonight is the two pound raffle ticket, which is drawn next, making three people very happy with their car boot prizes.

Milloy never fail to disappoint in this pub; hometown shows are always the best. Now the crowd are moving; fair enough the fans of the other bands have left but the Milloy fans that were outside waiting for their slot more than make up for it. The place is a swirling mass of sweaty people, mainly bare-chested blokes (one starts, they all do!).



Many of the set comes from album ‘More Than A Machine’, like ‘Black Jack’ and ‘Less Said’, which are anthems here in the Wakey and Leeds punk scene. The passion for playing is still with the five-piece; Jim’s vocals are still thrown in your face whether you’re ready for them or not, and the band play their instruments so hard you wander how they manage to keep the same ones for a full tour.

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