Hot Water Music @ Òran Mór, 27 August

Review by Ryan Drever | 06 Sep 2011

For the eternal teenagers who have waited the best part of a decade for Florida punks Hot Water Music to return to Scotland, this is a big one. As expected, the opening leathery growl of Remedy is greeted by a buzzed-up blur of fists and boozy shout-a-longs.

Plucking liberally from the earlier end of their back catalogue, particularly the likes of No Division and A Flight And A Crash, HWM's all-too-brief headline set still manages to cover some serious ground while piling on the familiar favourites. It's the rampant Trusty Chords however, that really lights the fuse, causing a spike in everyone's energy levels. All four members soon drown in all-consuming cocktails of sweat and adrenaline as they're besieged by legions of loyal, overexcited stage divers. Sure, a muggy cloud dogged much of the set's first half, but by the end nobody cares. And rightly so.

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