CD REVIEW: VINCENT and the ONEPOTTS – Best Of Enemies

Shane | 19 September 2016 | Reply

CD REVIEW: VINCENT and the ONEPOTTS – Best Of Enemies
Independent
November 2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10

It’s such a buzz to see so many new, exciting bands coming out with material which simply refuses to be pigeon-holed, which will never sell a million copies or fund them an international tour, but which cooks up a delicious melange of pulsing, driving guitar music, pissed off punk aggression, back-to-basics rock n’ roll attitude and heartfelt passion. For me, this sort of band are impossible not to like.

Named in homage to the late lamented UK based Vincent Motorcycle Company, and in particular the single cylinder 600cc bike (a ‘one pot’) they produced in the 1940’s, Vincent and the Onepotts open this second album in a whirlwind with Hurricane, with the trio (Russ Frame on vocals and guitars; Kev Jones also on vocals, bass and keys! [their apostrophe, not mine]; and drummer Tony Henderson) make all the right noises atop a gloriously catchy melody line.

Hell yeah and Dead Train follow, like teenagers who aren’t sure if they wanna be punk or metal so stride both camps whilst belonging to neither. Raise A Glass and Another Girl boast the attitude, if not the Celtic instruments, of the Dropkick Murphys, while Last Man Standing and Change Your Mind sound like the illegitimate children of The Sex Pistols and The Hard-Ons (insert your own jokes here, folks).

Rebel Revolution has a Strummer-meets-Stray Cats feel to it – but in reality, like the entire album, it’s pure Vincent and the Onepotts – before the album closes with the Anti Nowhere League ferocity of All Fucked Up.

Great stuff.