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THOSE DAMN CROWS – BIRMINGHAM O2 INSTITUTE, 30.10.25
Back in April, Those Damn Crows achieved a well-deserved No. 1 spot in the UK album
charts for their new album, ‘God Shaped Hole’. Since then, they’ve been touring in support of
the release, and showing that they’re also No. 1 when it comes to putting on a top-class show.
After support slots by James Bruner and Autumn Kings, both impressing us immensely
(we’ve seen James Bruner before, but he seems to have really fine-tuned his performance and
is going from strength to strength, while it’s our first time seeing Canadians Autumn Kings, but
hopefully not the last) – and both being bands that we ought to feature in Black Velvet, Those
Damn Crows take to the O2 Institute stage. Their 18-song set features a whopping nine (out of
ten) songs from their new album. This makes the show refreshing and distinctive from past tours.
It’s great to hear new album tracks live, especially as the album is such a superb collection of
work. They kick things off with the opening song, the heavyweight ‘Dancing With The Enemy’.
The five-piece of Shane Greenhall (vocals), Lloyd Wood (bass), guitarists Ian ‘Shiner’ Thomas
and David Winchurch and drummer Ronnie Huxford bring with them an exceptional light show,
which adds to their performance. Songs such as ‘Man On Fire’ and ‘No Surrender’ are perfect
slices of hard rock.

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